Thursday, January 21, 1915

Rain

Correspondence (1 of 2)

Letter #270Time not recorded
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The main point is to do something really effective for Servia . . . I have urged Grey to put the strongest possible pressure upon Roumania

Discusses the urgency of helping Serbia and the strategic options; also French politics.

Mentioned:Sir Edward Grey • Kitchener • Castelneau • Winston Churchill • Gulland • Sir F. Bertie • Joffre • Millerand • Gallieni

Metric Analysis

Romantic Adoration1/10
Political Unburdening8/10
Emotional Desolation0/10

Thematic Tags

Serbia aidStrategic optionsWhip appointment (Gulland)French politics
In-Person Meetingⓘ
H.H. Asquith
Londonⓘ
HIS DAYInterview with Gulland.. In London. Writing to Venetia Stanley about Serbia
Venetia Stanley
Londonⓘ

Official Register

1915-01-21

Top News

Daily Edition

German submarine U-22 accidentally torpedoed and sank its own sister ship U-7 in the North Sea.

Cabinet Council

NO SESSION
No Minutes

Parliament

RECESS
Adjourned

Witness Observations

FS
Frances Stevenson

"C. is not very well today. He has been working very hard, but personally I think he is suffering from too much ‘family’. He was very upset on Monday [18 January] because not one of them had remembered that it was his birthday on Sunday... C. is to go over there [Paris] in February to meet M. Ribot & the Russian financiers."

Lord Riddell
Lord Riddell

"Dined with Donald. Sir Thomas Lipton guest of the evening. He told me that he took the Empress Eugénie to Marseilles... Also that when King Edward went to Kiel, the German Emperor sent to inquire “whether he had brought his grocer with him”..."

Maurice Hankey
Maurice Hankey

"Shortly after my arrival this morning I was sent for by the P.M. At 10 Downing Street I found Sir Edward Grey and Lloyd George. The Prime Minister said that as Lord Kitchener was away he had sent for me."