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hinterland of Czechoslovakia, and you are not putting up much of a
show in Tibet at this moment. But Napoleon and Alex the Great would
be hard put to it to determine the unity of your strategy in the lands of
your alleged allies. I am not an expert in military affairs, but even the
B.B.C. wishful thinkers haven’t yet made out a case for the
enlightenment or divine guidance of the Anglo-Jewish command. And
the word COLLABORATION, world collaboration, as an alternative to
tyranny by the incompetent has not yet found its place in Mr. Wallace’s
vocabulary. In fact, I don’t think he is very clear in his own mind, on the
subject, and of course if Baruch or some other American patriot hasn’t
explained it to Mr. Wallace, I don’t suppose Franklin has troubled to go
into the matter. I am not advocatin’ return to the horse and buggy days of
American economy, but even what they knew seems to have perished
without your having joined with the present.
#64 (March 7, 1943) U.K.(C13)
TOWARD VERACITY
My talk this evening is not controversial but narrativie, in fact recounted
from personal experience. I note that when I first began to listen to radio
—that is, after two friends determined to break down my antipathy to
radio had planted, that is, given me a small sized medium wave
apparatus, and then fled the village—I began and listened sometimes to
London. When I began to speak over the air, I definitely tried to listen to
London but with the passage of time I listen to London less. I listen to
Berlin more. This is the fruit or result of experience. It has not been done
by directing or forcing my will, it has resulted from inclination; and to
explain that inclination I have found nothing better than a passage from
the letters of J.B. Yeats, old man who used to be rather better known as
Yeats’ father, a painter, who used to talk with his models, that in fact was
his method of studying anthropology. His models were not exceptional
people; and his conclusion about talking with them was that he listened
with inter’st not to remarkable sayings, and not to displays of unusual