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About Cecil Spring Rice

Sir Cecil Arthur Spring Rice, GCMG, GCVO, PC (27 February 1859 – 14 February 1918) was a British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to the United States from 1912 to 1918, as which he was responsible for the organisation of British efforts to end American neutrality during the First World War.

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β€œOne by one, the Jews are capturing the principal newspapers of America.”
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β€œI also heard from the same source that the reason he can't get on with English people is that he can't get over an aversion to anyone who works for money. He doesn't separate it into another art, like Plato. I wish he did. The man who told me this said at the end, "He is without the three strongest passions which make men good or badβ€”the love of money, the love of fame and the love of women."”
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About Cecil Spring Rice

Sir Cecil Arthur Spring Rice, GCMG, GCVO, PC (27 February 1859 – 14 February 1918) was a British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to the United States from 1912 to 1918, as which he was responsible for the organisation of British efforts to end American neutrality during the First World War.
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