37 Days to World War One.

In my opinion there will not be a better drama on television than the programme entitled - 37 Days. I was on three consecutive nights last week, it had a cast that was full of some of our most illustrious actors. The role of Sir Edward Gey, the Foreign Secretary was played with consummate skill and panache by Ian McDiarmid. He contained all the ambivalence of the Cabinet. How would they find a casus belli  to justify war. He is little known to the British public, but I have seen him many times when he was one of the co-directors of the Almeida Theatre in Islington. His remark about the impending outbreak of war has gone down in history as prophetic - "the lamps are going all over Europe, we may not see them lite again in our lifetime". As Winston Churchill said it will be a war of  "blood and iron".