“In the East – both Far and Near – clouds are gathering, the menacing specter of a pan-European war is emerging more and more clearly on the horizon. Europe is becoming more and more belligerent, and no sooner do diplomats have time to cover up one crack in the international balance than another appears in its place. Not a day goes by without hypocritical bourgeois politicians talking about peace; and not a day goes by without the same politicians demanding new appropriations for the army and navy...”