Parting Shots
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Thompson, Sir John 62–4
Tripp, Peter 267–70
Unwin, Sir Keith 60–61
Walker, Malcolm 50
Warner, Sir Edward 260–62
Warr, George 109–10
Weir, Sir Michael 239–48
Williams, Anthony 303–4
Wilton, Sir John 257–9
Wright, Sir Denis 301–2
Wright, Sir Paul 355–6
Index of Countries
Afghanistan 195–7
Argentina 56–8
Australia 339–42
Austria 21–3
Barbados 114–15, 293–5, 322–4, 364–6
Bolivia 58–9, 317–18
Brazil 51–6
Cambodia 303–4
Canada 100–5, 366–7
China 187–95, 359–61
Cuba 198–9
Czechoslovakia 177–81
Denmark 358–9
Dubai 325–33
Egypt 239–48, 362
Finland 30–34
France 119–23, 200–213, 357–8
Germany 42–5
Germany, Federal Republic of 34–42, 123–6
Greece 363
Honduras 110–12
Iceland 24–5
India 62–4, 126–33
Indonesia 88–9
Iran 231–8, 301–2
Italy 145–50, 304–5
Jamaica 112–14
Japan 80–85
Jordan 248–52
Kuwait 257–9
Lebanon 256–7, 355–6
Liberia 48–50
Libya 267–70
Luxembourg 321
Mexico 133–4, 300
Mongolia 67–71
Morocco 302–3, 357
Nepal 66–7
Netherlands, the 23
Nicaragua 106–10, 215–23, 300–301
Nigeria 46, 281–9, 350–52
Norway 213–14, 305–13
Pakistan 65
Poland 182–7, 367–70
Portugal 141–5
Puerto Rico 115–16
Russia 167–76, 321–2 see also Soviet Union
Saudi Arabia 135–41, 227–30
Senegal 47–8
Singapore 333–8
Soviet Union 153–67 see also Russia
Switzerland 26–30
Syria 252–5
Tanzania 343–4
Thailand 71–9
Tunisia 260–66
Tuvalu 345–50
United Nations 289–93
United States of America 90–100, 271–80
Uruguay 60–61, 313–17
Vietnam 85–8, 318–20
* Count Benkendorf, the Chief of the Russian Secret Police in the 1830s, once said: ‘Laws are written for underlings, not for their bosses.’
* Kennan, the American diplomat and scholar, was briefly US Ambassador in Moscow in the early 1950s, but was expelled for a disobliging remark about the Stalinist system.
* The argument about whether Russia is European or Asian will no doubt rage for ever. The Russians themselves cannot decide. But Russia is part of Christendom, an integral part of European history, and the great Russian novelists are read by all educated Englishmen, most of whom have never read a page of Goethe, Dante, or Racine; and have no idea whether or not there is such a thing as the great Indian, Japanese or Chinese novel. Russia is a problem to the rest of us, not because it is insufficiently European, but because it is insufficiently small: it stretches across eleven time zones, and the larger part of its territory – though a minority of its people – looks to the Pacific and Asia. This affects attitudes and politics, but does not affect the essentially European nature of Russian civilisation.