Let us talk of many things : the collected speeches by Buckley William F. (William Frank) 1925-

Author:Buckley, William F. (William Frank), 1925-
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Speeches, addresses, etc., American
Publisher: Roseville, Calif. : Forum
Published: 2000-08-05T16:00:00+00:00

monitor Soviet compliance with those accords—which the Soviet government had initiated and then signed—was sentenced to seven years of hard labor, to be followed by five years of exile in Siberia. He was not allowed independent counsel, was not permitted to question his accusers, was held incommunicado for the thirteen months preceding his conviction. He was tried in a courtroom in which the words of Lord Home were mocked, and from which the press, charged with expediting the "exchange of information" of which Lord Home had sung at Helsinki, was matter-of-factly excluded. To be sure, the family were present. On Thursday, leaving the courtroom, the wife of Yuri Orlov was stripped naked by three female Soviet officials in the presence of three male Soviet officials, and searched. Perhaps she was suspected of carrying the text of the Helsinki Accords in her underpants. May we suppose that Yuri Or-lov's fear of Communism has not proved to be inordinate?

(2) A week ago Saturday, the New York Times published an extensive dispatch collating information, gathered from numerous observers, on doings in Cambodia. In Cambodia in recent months there have been aggravated shortages. Of the usual things—food, fuel, shelter, medicine—to be sure. But most pressing, it appears, has been the shortage of ammunition with which to kill Cambodian civilians. Accordingly, on orders of the government headed by Pol Pot, the Cambodian militia has shown great economic ingenuity. Tens of thousands of men and women suspected of having been related in some way—perhaps they had gone to school together, or grown up in the same hamlet—to men who had resisted the Khmer Rouge have been clubbed to death while standing, arms tied behind their backs, in ditches they had thoughtfully dug to receive their imminent remains. The young children of these men and women, we are informed, are bounced about playfully on the bayonets of the soldiers until they are dead, or almost dead, upon which they are tossed into the common ditches. Pol Pot does not devote the whole of his time to overseeing this enterprise in population control. He is otherwise engaged—for instance, as guest of honor recently in Peking at a banquet tendered by the rulers of the People's Republic of China, who,

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