Sir Edward Grey, Sir Anthony Eden, Ernest Bevin, Alec Douglas-Hume - and Robin Cook!

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It might be overly melodramatic to paraphrase Britain's foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey, who said at the outbreak of World War I that the lamps were going out all over Europe, but it seems unlikely that the Middle East can avoid a period of prolonged instability and crisis in the coming years.

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