The World Survived The Fall

Whatever Else It Was, Adolf Hitler's Short-lived Regime Was Also A Colossal Industrial Process By Which The Wealth And Productive Power Of Much Of Europe Was Wrenched From Its Normal Purposes And Converted Into A Machine For Killing.

What Holds An Arab Leader In Power Is A Mixture Of Violence And Prestige. Both President Assad And King Hussein Were Felt To Have Defended Arab Interests Against The World. That, In The End, Is More Important Than What They Wear On Their Head.

One Of The Admirable Features Of British Novelists Is That They Have No Scruple About Setting Their Stories In Foreign Settings With Wholly Foreign Personnel.

The World Survived The Fall Of The Roman Empire And Will No Doubt Outlast Our Own So Much More Splendid Civilisation.

Cause And Effect, The Riddle Of All History, Is A Particular Devil In Financial History; And Never More So Than Today, Where Entire Classes Of Security Are Collapsing Not On Public Exchanges And Stock-tickers But Because There Are No Markets To Establish Prices This Side Of Nothing.