We must have done with this crowned comedian, poet, musician, sailor, warrior, pastor; this commentator absorbed in reconciling Hammurabi with the Bible, giving his opinion on every problem of philosophy, speaking of everything, saying nothing." M.Clemenceau summed up the Kaiser as "another Nero; but Rome in flames is not sufficient for him--he demands the destruction of the universe." The Socialist, Upton Sinclair, speaking at the time, blamed Russia as well as Germany and Austria.

He also inclined to the view that the assassination at Sarajevo was instigated by Austria.

He said: "I assert that never before in human history has there been a war with less pretense of justification.

It is the supreme crime of the ages; a blow at the very throat of civilization.

The three nations which began it, Austria, Russia and Germany, are governed, the first by a doddering imbecile, the second by a weak-minded melancholic, and the third by an epileptic degenerate, drunk upon the vision of himself as the war lord of Europe.