It So Happens That I Never Talk

Lift The Curtain And 'the State' Reveals Itself As A Little Group Of Fallible Men In Whitehall, Making Guesses About The Future, Influenced By Political Prejudices And Partisan Prejudices, And Working On Projections Drawn From The Past By A Staff Of Economists.

History Is Littered With The Wars Which Everybody Knew Would Never Happen.

The Prime Minister, Shortly After She Came Into Office, Received A Sobriquet As The 'iron Lady'. It Arose In The Context Of Remarks Which She Made About Defence Against The Soviet Union And Its Allies; But There Was No Reason To Suppose That The Right Honourable Lady Did Not Welcome And, Indeed, Take Pride In That Description. In The Next Week Or Two This House, The Nation And The Right Honourable Lady Herself, Will Learn Of What Metal She Is Made.

I Refer To The Misunderstanding Of Soviet Russia As An Aggressive Power, Militaristically And Ideologically Bent Upon World Domination 'seeing', To Quote A Recent Speech Of The British Prime Minister, 'the Rest Of The World As Its Rightful Fiefdom.' How Any Rational Person, Viewing Objectively The History Of The Last Thirty-five Years, Could Entertain This 'international Misunderstanding' Challenges, If It Does Not Defeat, Comprehension. The Notion Has No Basis In Fact... If Russia Is Bent On World Conquest, She Has Been Remarkably Slothful And Remarkably Unsuccessful.

When We Look At The Astonishing Material Achievements Of The West. We See These Things As The Result, Not Of Compulsion Or Government Action Or The Superior Wisdom Of A Few, But Of That System Of Competition And Free Enterprise, Rewarding Success And Penalising Failure, Which Enables Every Individual To Participate By His Private Decisions In Shaping The Future Of His Society.