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Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

Barbara Amiel

Only a free West can help the prisoners of today’s left- and right-wing dictatorships.
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Today West Wings
It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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Empty Rhetoric World
I 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.
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Ideas Morning Style
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.
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Military People Technology
There 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.
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Latin Military Wall
When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.
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Recycling Speech Vortex
Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.
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Century Communist Movement
The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
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Divide Enslaved Today World
Since 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.
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Energy Europe Materials Raw
In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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Common Crime World
Power is sexy, not simply in its own right, but because it inspires self-confidence in its owner and a shiver of subservience on the part of those who approach it.
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Confidence Inspire Self Sexy
The 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.
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Benefits Country Running
I 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.
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Country Journey Opportunity
Of course the barbarians’ aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.
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Barbarians Wall World
If 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.
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America Independence Trying
Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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Century Feudalism Totalitarianism

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

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