Yesterday morning the British Ambassador in St Petersburg handed the Russian Government a
final Note stating that, unless we heard from them by 11 o'clock that they were
prepared at once to withdraw their troops from the border with Norway, a state of war would
exist between us.I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that
consequently this country is at war with Russia.You can imagine what a bitter blow it is to me that all my long struggle to win
peace has failed. Yet I cannot believe that there is anything more or anything
different that I could have done and that would have been more successful.