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1915 · PDF PAGE 5

The World On Fire

…e trusted to put the "double-cross" on every one. The Kaiser never stirred. It would have been easy to destroy the Russian menace at the time when Japan was straining the sin- ews of the Tartar giant, or when the Moscow Revolution showed that the Tsar could not trust his own soldiers, and the Imperial Guard, hastily summoned from St. Pe- tersburg, shut up the garrison of Moscow in the Kremlin, trained their own guns upon them, and disarmed them. The Kaiser did nothing. Surely the Russo-Japanese war and the Boer war showed plainly — if any fool …

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1915 · PDF PAGE 7

The World On Fire

… be mis- taken for aggression," while her Algerian and Senegam- bian troops were on the water, half-way to Marseilles. He knew that this time there was no hope of peace. Abdication itself would hardly have saved Germany from a long-prepared, carefully-planned war, a war whose avowed object, an object in the mouth of every man in the street, was the destruction of Austria, the dismem- berment of Germany. They had got him. Even a worm will turn; even a Quaker will fight if he is cornered. Wilhelm struck. I write in English for those English who c…

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