The Kaiser was on a visit to Russia, the Kaiser who was held to be at fault for Germany being insufficiently prepared for World War One mobilization, the last country to mobilize; the Kaiser who was the favorite nephew of Queen Victoria, who died in his arms. The leader of the most cultured country that has ever existed, land of the philospher Immanuel Kant, the mathematician Gauss, writer Goethe, composers Beethoven and Bach. Not a baby-bayonetting Hun. The German Kaiser was visiting his cousin, the Russian Tzar; they were looking out over a vista, over a cliff. To prove a...