The People’s Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
BARBARA AMIELThe People’s Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
BARBARA AMIELAll share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
BARBARA AMIELIn a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
BARBARA AMIELOur society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. But liberty, you see, that precious child of our liberal democracy only two hundred years old, has one notable side effect.
BARBARA AMIELSince Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.
BARBARA AMIELIf America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy.
BARBARA AMIELHere in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
BARBARA AMIELThere are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well – the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
BARBARA AMIELOnly a free West can help the prisoners of today’s left- and right-wing dictatorships.
BARBARA AMIELBy now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
BARBARA AMIELThe world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
BARBARA AMIELI have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver’s Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.
BARBARA AMIELThe interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.
BARBARA AMIELI have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.
BARBARA AMIELWhen virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice. In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
BARBARA AMIELTotalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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