Principles to Live By by David Adams Richards

Author:David Adams Richards [Richards, David Adams]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Published: 2016-05-17T00:00:00+00:00

Afterwards—that is, after the drink at Dandy’s—Midge came into the consulate and declared that she was particularly hopeful that “our troops can be kept in check until peace can be worked out. All violence—any violence—is bad, but killing is worse. Men never seem to know this.”

The next day at a sitting at the UN, half the membership did not show up for a speech by the minister from Kenya, and of the half that did, one-quarter of those yawned, fidgeted and fell asleep. The speech was about a last-ditch effort to “thrust forward” the Arusha peace agreement. This is what Midge was hopeful for.

One of the people who most approved of Midge’s stance against supplying the Canadian command with more troops or weapons, or even a new protocol, was her Hutu friend Rwandan ambassador Jean-Damascène Bizimana. They were constantly in each other’s sight, constantly networking. He told her that the Canadian observers in Kigali were making vastly libellous and ridiculous assertions in the hope of military intervention, which he said would never be tolerated, because he said it would lead to a return of colonialism. To the age of Cecil Rhodes and the De Beers diamond trade.

This idea of being in any way accused of participating in the return of colonialism repelled her and the Lion of Justice more than almost anything else. And to speak of diamonds and DeBeers now—was odious.

Midge was at the Rwandan ambassador’s grand apartment on Thirty-Ninth Street many times in those days, and never took a moment to notice the two diamonds on his fingers.

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