"I see three armoured columns advancing from the east to the west, as far as the Rhine and the Ruhr; they reach it in a single day. From the east it teems with caterpillars (tanks), one almost squeezing the other. "

"The Third World War will begin in the Balkans: the murder of a great man will be the spark, and armies from the East will roll west as far as the Rhine. "

"From the sand of the African desert the great birds rise with eggs of death, without men. They go up from the sand like flocks of white pigeons; they are only little boxes, but quite dangerous. Where such a box falls down, hardly anything is left alive. "

"This war will last only four months, but will be the most terrible in the history of the world; recovery comes within one and a half moon-lengths. "