twenty-eight years and a million words
I made a wonderous discovery, today. Among my grandfather's scalpels and forcips and other former medical gear that he was using for carving tools, I found four matches that he'd carved. Two were two-mast sailing ships. Another was a figure hanging onto the matchstick. The fourth was an intricately carved chain! I'm delighted.
Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.