The World On Fire
…irs was he who could be 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 …