User:Sayerslle/Dayrell Crackanthorpe

Dayrell Crackanthorpe was a British minister - in Belgrade in the years before the First world war. He was a 'man of pronounced Serbophile sentiment' - he urged skepticism toward accounts provided by British vice-consuls in Skopje and Monastir that reported 'systematic intimidation, arbitrary detentions, beatings , rapes, village-burnings, and massacres by the Serbs in the annexed areas ' - (areas annexed by Serbia after the Second Balkan War - ) - The cumulative detail of reports emerging, and corroborating accounts from Romanian, Swiss and French officials persuaded the British foreign office however that news of atrocities should not be dismissed as austrian propaganda - Crackanthorpes most important sorce was ' a Servian officer of his acquantaince' -

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• dayrell crackanthorpe letter to sir Edward grey on assassination of franz Ferdinand
• wilton park and the fco bring first world war diplomacy to life