war-monger

Updated: May 8, 2025

This work of his, which helped so materially to save the world, was done with clean hands. It was never the work of a war-monger. No foreigner ever exercised so great an influence in Russia, and this influence had its power in his moral nature. I had this from M. Sazonoff himself. Such a man as Lord Carnock could not make any headway in English political life.

Harold Begbie - The Mirrors of Downing Street: Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster