Behind their glittering phrases both monarchs were uneasy. At the Conference it was soon made manifest that genuine Pacifists there were none, except the United States. The time was not ripe. Europe, for her awakening, needed the stench of ten million corpses.

— Emil Ludwig Wilhelm Hohenzollern: The Last of the Kaisers (1926)

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