Let The Dog Bark; The Moon Shall

Was The Collaboration Of Some Slaves Any Different Than The Silence Of Some Iranians Who Stood By And Did Nothing As Savak Thugs Murdered And Tortured Opponents Of The Shah? How Could We Judge Other Men Until We Had Stood In Their Shoes?

For All Its Apparent Tolerance, The Usa Maintains A Peculiar Balance Between The Forces Of Capitalism And Democracy. To Achieve This I Feel Sure The Country Is Guided By Some Hidden Force; An Organization Working In Secrecy, Powerful Enough To Dispose Of The Kennedys And Of Anyone Else Who Gets In Its Way.

The Shah Regarded Politics As The Province Of Demagoguery, An Art In Which Only Charlatans Could Excel. He Had No Time For What He Saw As The Tedious Process Of Achieving Consensus Through Debate And Discussion And Tried To Justify His Solitary Exercise Of Power By Insisting It Was What Iran Needed To Catch Up With Lost Time. He Believed He Was More Patriotic Than Anyone Else And Needed No Advice On How Best To Promote And Protect The Highest Interests Of The Nation.

It Would Serve The Americans Right If We Emptied The Prisons And Let The Subversives Take Power. They'd Soon Show Washington Just How Much They Appreciate Good Old American Values.

Yugoslavia Is, With Iran, The Only Country Which Under Difficult, Not To Say Agonising, Circumstances Stood Up To Joseph Stalin. It Was Not Easy To Unite Ethnic Groups Or To Modernize A Country Like Yugoslavia, And It Must Be Acknowledged That Marshal Tito Achieved Something Extraordinary. May God Grant That His Successors Be As Capable As He.