A Crest Book published by arrangement with Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. 1963. First Crest printing, September 1964
En ret ligegyldig spionroman. Heller ikke særligt spændende. Den hvor kommunistiske terrorister vil få den franske sikkerhedstjeneste til at tro, at OAS vil myrde de Gaulle.
En rigtig koldkrigsroman. Den lever helt op til skolegårdens: "Det man siger er man selv !". (I Grækenland, Irland, o.s.v. er det svært for almindelige mennesker at opleve Europa i dag som "prosperous" (velstående). [USA har det ikke bedre].Der er selvfølgelig alligevel sandheder i den. Men vestlige "statsmænd" lærer aldrig, at iraqere, afghanere, tunesere og libyere oplever en invasion af fremmede tropper nøjagtig som vi andre, her Vaugiroud.
"He didn't tell you?" There was a look of relief in Ballard's eyes. "Oh, you know - the Great Rumor of April. CIA urging French generals to revolt in Algiers. Remember?"
"Oh yes. That was the rumor an Australian journalist flattened out for us."
Not quite. He just forced the French into admitting that they had no evidence at all." 26
Penneyman had been interested in the responsibilities of the press, Fenner knew. But Vaugiroud? "Possibly it's the same reason that made you change from the study of ethics to power politics. Your experience in the Resistance, perhaps?"
Vaugiroud was pleased with the answer. "You are half right. My conversion was a little earlier than that, though. It happened on the day I stood and watched the Nazi tanks roll down the Champs-Elysées." He paused. "I had always a questioning kind of mind. But that day I wept. I had no answers. How could this be happening? How did an enemy break you down before any real war began, so that all I your military protections became useless? How did he weaken you, separate you from your friends, divide opinions, destroy your morale and your purpose? I have been trying to find the answers ever since. I gave up my work, my search for the Good, and turned to analyzing the Evil." He looked down at the report he held in his hand. "I have learned several things: without knowing what is menacing us, we cannot protect our safety; in 1940, it was too late for any answer except remorse, and misery, and hidden resistance; in 1935, we could have saved ourselves that agony. For the basic reality of power politics is always this: who is going to control your life - you or your enemy? There is no evasion of that question. If you ignore it, you have lost." 66
... any information that was dangerous was is usually worth knowing. 68
"And without NATO, what protects Western Europe? Without a peaceful Western Europe, what protects the growth of the Common Market? And without the Common Market, how could a United States of Free Europe ever develop? And hat, Mr. Fenner, is their ultimate target. The Communists think far ahead. The dream of a United States of Europe is the nightmare of the Communist world. They have preached that Western capitalism is doomed, ready for burial; a system breeding wars and economic cannibalism. A collection of prosperous and peaceful nations in Western Europe would be the complete rebuttal to all Communist theories. Who would believe them then?" 75
The professor has drawn danger upon himself. All those intellectuals who come to talk with him, all those anti-communists, anti-fascists, anti-OAS, anti-this, anti-that —"
"Anti-totalitarian," Fenner suggested quietly. "That sums it up."
Roussin paid no attention: the exact meaning within a phrase did not seem important to him. "They have made many enemies for themselves. Why are intelligent men so stupid? 87-88
Usually it's the swimming pool that brings out the silliest in women. 93
"Where do I sign? Oh Lord, so many places. You know. Bill, there's one aspect of the population explosion that has no solution."
"Only one ?"
"Where are they going to file the forms that everyone will have to fill up?" 172
Or perhaps one of Vivaldi's pieces written for his choir of disfigured orphans who had sung his music down there, in the cathedral, their pitiful faces and crippled limbs forgotten, their clear voices soaring? 283
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