Multiple choice general knowledge

During which was was this memorible phrase uttered "The lights are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them being lit in out time"

  1. World War One

  2. Operation Iraqi Freedom

  3. Faulklands War

  4. French Indian War
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Explanation

This quote was spoken by British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey on the eve of World War I in August 1914: 'The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our time.' It prophetically captured the scale of the coming conflict.

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