Salisbury said two things which are more decided than any former utterances of his: that Russia at Constantinople would do us no harm: and that we ought to seize Egypt. (Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury)

Salisbury said two things which are more decided than any former utterances of his: that Russia at Constantinople would do us no harm: and that we ought to seize Egypt.

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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