In Defense Of The World Order .

History Is Full Of Surprises.

If We Are To Survive, We Must Have Ideas, Vision, And Courage. These Things Are Rarely Produced By Committees. Everything That Matters In Our Intellectual And Moral Life Begins With An Individual Confronting His Own Mind And Conscience In A Room By Himself.

Righteousness Is Easy In Retrospect.

Santayana's Aphorism Must Be Reversed: Too Often It Is Those Who Can Remember The Past Who Are Condemned To Repeat It.

I Trust That A Graduate Student Some Day Will Write A Doctoral Essay On The Influence Of The Munich Analogy On The Subsequent History Of The Twentieth Century. Perhaps In The End He Will Conclude That The Multitude Of Errors Committed In The Name Of Munich May Exceed The Original Error Of 1938.