Whatever topic he touched upon, the Kaiser would immediately start declaiming on the dangers that faced Europe from the East.

His insistence on this accounted partly for the slight signs of impatience which the American showed.

He feared that all the time allotted for the interview would be devoted to discussing the Japanese.
About another nation, the Kaiser showed almost as much alarm as he did about Japan, and that was Russia.

He spoke contemptuously of France and Great Britain as possible enemies, for he apparently had no fear of them.

But the size of Russia and the exposed eastern frontier of Germany seemed to appal him.