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…ssia was turning flank, pushing on through the Balkans subtly and surely. And the Kaiser answered, "I am the servant of God; I stand for peace. The Crown Prince is for war; I banish him from the Court. When I am dead let him be master; but while I live I am for peace. And let him that draws the sword perish by the sword!" And the Triple Entente gathered closer and chuck- led: Aha! he dare not fight. Let us frighten the garotte! So Servia plots and executes the crime of Sarajevo. Austria, its aged Emperor smitten yet again and most foully, deman…
1915 · PDF PAGE 7
… instigated by Panslavism or was a threat equally to the Tsar as to any other ruler re- plies by mobilizing. Sir Edward Grey spoke for peace, spoke of neutral- ity, in the House of Commons at a moment when thou- sands of British troops were already in Belgian waters, and the fleet, concentrated and ready for action, already held the North Sea. France withdrew her troops from the frontier "so as to avoid any possibility of incidents which might be mis- taken for aggression," while her Algerian and Senegam- bian troops were on the water, half-w…
1915 · PDF PAGE 2
…igs gentlefolk; these assassins who officially plot and execute the dastard murder of the Crown Prince of a nation with whom they are at peace; these ruffians so foul that even cynical England hesitates to send a minis- ter to their court of murderers these be thy gods to- day, O England! "Heroic little Servia!" I have not a word to say against the Montenegrins. They are decent, honest cutthroats. And now we come to the treacherous monkeys of Japan, the thieves and pirates of the East. Who makes the shoddy imitations of European and American …
1915 · PDF PAGE 4
…ook-swinging, suttee, child-murder, human sacrifice, and cannibal feast? It is a lie. The Kaiser has always been, and is today, a man of peace. He has indeed lived up to the maxim Si vis pacem, para bellum and, loaded with the legacy of
1915 · PDF PAGE 5
…yet alive who remembered Jena, and the ceaseless raids and rav- ages of Bonaparte? But in a hundred crises he kept his head; he kept the peace. He had plenty of chances to smash France forever; he did not take them. An ambitious prince might have put a relative on the throne of Louis XIV while France was torn by the Boulanger affair, the Pa- nama scandal, the Dreyfus horror, when Diogenes might have gone through France with a modern search-light for his lantern without finding a single man who was not a traitor to his country, or at least to th…