Show THE SACRED WILL A proclamation of the grand duke nicholas to the russian soldiers contains this every loyal subject knows that every russian from the commander in chief to the private sold soldier er is obedient to the sacred will of our highly venerated emperor who alone has the power to declare and to stop the war you could hardly find a clearer explanation of what would otherwise be a mystery why millions of men who want war and who dislike one another are fighting and killings killing one another like demons the whole militarist system of europe not alone that of russia was built in undemocratic lines the people have had nothing to do with the war machine and the d direction of the war var machine except to hold themselves in readiness as cannon fodder kansas C city it iStar star |