In the Arena
1990
Richard Nixon, Republican President
Chapter 39, "Peace" page 348
"Today, scores of businessmen have been clamoring for an easing of restrictions on trade with Moscow. But policymakers should be cautious in heeding their counsel. As Whittaker Chambers wrote, "Almost without exception, the great businessmen are charmed and impressed by the great Communists whenever history (or trade) has brought them together -- face to face. They find they speak the same language, i.e., the language of power and action stripped of intellectual baggage. But fate is glimpsed grimly in this fact: though the great Communists fool and baffle the great businessmen, the great businessmen are no puzzle to the great Communists who see straight through and beyond them."
1990
Richard Nixon, Republican President
Chapter 39, "Peace" page 348
"Today, scores of businessmen have been clamoring for an easing of restrictions on trade with Moscow. But policymakers should be cautious in heeding their counsel. As Whittaker Chambers wrote, "Almost without exception, the great businessmen are charmed and impressed by the great Communists whenever history (or trade) has brought them together -- face to face. They find they speak the same language, i.e., the language of power and action stripped of intellectual baggage. But fate is glimpsed grimly in this fact: though the great Communists fool and baffle the great businessmen, the great businessmen are no puzzle to the great Communists who see straight through and beyond them."
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