When the Foreign Office Blundered, by Hon Harold Nicolson | 4 August 1914 | Episode 2
Published on 4 August 1914
Harold Nicolson, the brilliant author and critic, was a junior member of the staff at the Foreign Office in August 1914. His father (described in this video as 'Nicolson') was at the time Permanent Under Secretary, and later became Lord Carnock.
Mr. Nicolson's story of the major blunder made in those critical hours of delivering the wrong declaration of war to the German Ambassador, Prince Lichnowsky, makes fascinating reading.