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Dictatorships are dress parades for war, must attack their neighbors when the dictator's domestic show begins to pall on the audience. At all costs he must keep the populace interested, not let their minds wander from their glorious destiny, himself. "He has inspirations, walks in his sleep, shoots his friends in their beds, makes his enemies viceroys or air marshals or special ambassadors, reiterates his devotion to peace, launches warships, has birthdays, plows fields to prove that he knows the dignity of labor, shatters microphones, lowers the age for little boys to start rifle practice and for little...
...right line.' The line itself is never discussed." The censorship of two adjectives in one of his speeches showed André Gide the line even a distinguished visitor has to toe. He had referred to Russia's destiny, was told he would have to say "glorious destiny." He had referred to a great monarch, was told he would have to delete "great." A longtime champion of homosexuals, he was shocked at the Soviet law condemning homosexuals to five years' deportation...