Now William II must make _his_ addition.

He prepared for more than forty years; the nation prepared before he came to the throne and his whole reign has been given to making sure that he was ready.
It's a robber's raid.

Of course, the German case has been put so as to direct attention from this bald fact.
Now the philosophical pacifists--I don't mean the cowardly, yellow-dog ones--have never quite seen the war in this aspect.

They regard it as a dispute about something--about trade, about more seaboard, about this or that, whereas it is only a robber's adventure.

They want other people's property.