He told me some queer things that explained a lot that had puzzled me—things that happened in the Balkan War, how one state suddenly came out on top,why alliances were made and broken, why certain men disappeared, and where the sinews of war came from.The aim of the whole conspiracy was to get Russia and Germany at loggerheads.
When I asked why, he said that the anarchist lot thought it would give them their chance. Everything would be in the melting-pot, and they looked to see a new world emerge. The capitalists would rake in the shekels, and make fortunes by buying up wreckage.Capital, he said, had no conscience and no fatherland.Besides, the Jew was behind it, and the Jew hated Russia worse than hell.