Note 131 — Chapter XXI · THE REIGN OF JINGOISM.
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Lord Salisbury said, in reply to Lord Grey, in the House of Lords, that the statements in the Globe were “wholly unauthentic.” Lord Grey said he could not have believed it to be true that Lord Salisbury had agreed to the retrocession of Bessarabia. “It appeared,” he said, “to be too monstrous to be believed that her Majesty’s Government could have made such a stipulation as was agreed to”—an observation which Lord Salisbury ratified by his silence.—Hansard, Vol. CCXL., p. 1061.