Wednesday, July 22, 1914

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Correspondence (1 of 1)

Letter #102Afternoon
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We sat again this morning for an hour & a half, discussing maps & figures, and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man – the County of Tyrone. . . . I dined with the Dss. at Roehampton . . .

Asquith describes the first meetings of the Buckingham Palace Conference and the deadlock over Tyrone.

Mentioned:Duchess of Sutherland • Lord Lucas • Nan • Maurice Baring • A. E. W. Mason • Lady Rosemary Leveson-Gower • Redmond • Sir Edward Carson • Speaker • Lloyd George • Paul Cambon • Chaliapine • Diana Manners

Metric Analysis

Romantic Adoration6/10
Political Unburdening8/10
Emotional Desolation2/10

Thematic Tags

Buckingham Palace ConferenceTyroneKing's speech controversy
In-Person Meeting
H.H. Asquith
Londonⓘ
HIS DAYConference meetings. Question time in House. Lunch with mixed party. Cabinet.
Venetia Stanley
Londonⓘ
HER DAYAttending Garden Party (tomorrow).. Spent night with Asquith

Official Register

1914-07-22

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Austro-Hungarian battleships transport flying boats to the Gulf of Cattaro for reconnaissance, marking the first operational flights by naval aircraft in Europe.. Enver Pasha, the Ottoman Minister of War, proposes an alliance with Germany.. Railway workers in Saint John, New Brunswick, go on strike, leading to riots the following day.

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