Sir Henry Wilson - Diary entry for 1st August

Diaries of the Director of Military Operations for the British Army

On the 1st WIlson wrote:

"At 11.30 a.m. Asquith wrote to C.I.G.S. saying training was not to be suspended, and "putting on record" the fact that the Government had never promised the French an Expeditionary Force. Percy to lunch, he arranged to send George Lloyd and Charlie Beresford for Bonar Law to Wargrave. I went to the French Embassy, 3 p.m. to discuss with Panouse what it would mean if Germans were restricted to German-French frontiers. M. Cambon came in to see me. He was very bitter, though personally charming. Ollivant  in to see me, 4 p.m., and report that Winston wanted him to lecture Lloyd George on the European military situation. Saw Crowe 7 p.m. - very pessimistic, all countries mobilising except us. "