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s-302 I well remember what intelligent, informed people were saying in the last years of the Weimar Republic, what they told one another in the first days after Hindenburg had brought in Hitler.
s-303 I recall table talk from the times of Leon Blum and Edouard Daladier.
s-304 I remember what people said about the Italian adventure in Ethiopia and about the Spanish Civil War and the Battle of Britain.
s-305 Such intelligent discussion hasn't always been wrong.
s-306 What is wrong with it is that the discussants invariably impart their own intelligence to what they are discussing.
s-307 Later, historical studies show that what actually happened was devoid of anything like such intelligence.
s-308 It was absent from Flanders Field and from Versailles, absent when the Ruhr was taken, absent from Teheran, Yalta, Potsdam, absent from British policy at the time of the Palestine Mandate, absent before, during, and after the Holocaust.
s-309 History and politics are not at all like the notions developed by intelligent, informed people.
s-310 Tolstoi made this clear in the opening pages of War and Peace.
s-311 In Anna Scherer's salon, the elegant guests are discussing the scandal of Napoleon and the Duc d'Enghien, and Prince Andrei says that after all there is a great difference between Napoleon the Emperor and Napoleon the private person.
s-312 There are raisons d'etat and there are private crimes.
s-313 And the talk goes on.
s-314 What is still being perpetuated in all civilized discussion is the ritual of civilized discussion itself.
s-315 Tatu agrees with the Archbishop about the Russians.
s-316 So that, as they say in Chicago, is where the smart money is.
s-317 The Vatican is the next topic and receives similar treatment.
s-318 Some Armenian prelates have joined us for coffee and take part in the discussion.
s-319 Someone observes that the Church is a worshiper of success and always follows the majorities.
s-320 See what it is doing now in the Warsaw Pact countries, it is making deals with the Communists.
s-321 Should communism sweep Italy, would the Pope move to Jerusalem?
s-322 Rather, says one of the prelates, he would stay in Rome and become Party secretary.
s-323 And there we are, Kissinger has entirely wrecked Russia's Middle East policy and the Pope is about to swap the Vatican for the Kremlin.
s-324 Dessert is served.
s-325 In my letter to Le Monde I had said that in the French tradition there were two attitudes toward the Jews: a revolutionary attitude which had resulted in their enfranchisement, and an anti-Semitic one.
s-326 The intellectual leaders of the Enlightenment were decidedly anti-Semitic.
s-327 I asked which of the two attitudes would prevail in twentieth-century France the century of the Dreyfus affair and of the Vichy government.
s-328 The position taken by Foreign Minister Maurice Jobert in the October War of 1973 was that the Palestinian Arabs had a natural and justified desire to 'go home.'
s-329 I expressed, politely, the hope that the other attitude, the revolutionary one, would not be abandoned.
s-330 I made sure that my letter would be delivered.
s-331 Eugene Ionescu gave the editors one copy of it; another was handed to them by Manes Sperber, the novelist.
s-332 The letter was never acknowledged.
s-333 Since 1973, Le Monde has openly taken the side of the Arabs in their struggle with Israel.
s-334 It supports terrorists.
s-335 It is friendlier to Amin than to Rabin.
s-336 A recent review of the autobiography of a fedayeen speaks of the Israelis as colonialists.
s-337 On July 3, 1976, before Israel had freed the hostages at Entebbe, the paper observed with some satisfaction that Amin, 'the disquieting Marshal,' maligned by everyone, had now become the support and the hope of his foolish detractors.
s-338 The great Golden Gate that will open when the Redeemer appears stands sealed.
s-339 Just beyond, the Garden of Gethsemane.
s-340 As its name indicates, it was an olive grove.
s-341 Now pines, cypresses, and eucalyptus trees grow there below the domes of the Russian Orthodox church.
s-342 Opposite it there are olives still, which Arabs are harvesting with long poles.
s-343 They hit the branches, they thresh the leaves with their sticks, and the fruit rains down.
s-344 As we go up into the Via Dolorosa, we hear an exciting jingle.
s-345 Arab boys are racing their donkeys down the hill.
s-346 You look for sleighs and frost when you hear this jingle-belling.
s-347 Instead, there are boys stern and joyous, galloping hell-bent on their donkeys toward the Lions' Gate.
s-348 'Rode from Ramlah to Lydda,' Herman Melville wrote in his travel journal of 1857.
s-349 A mounted escort of some 30 men, all armed.
s-350 Fine riding.
s-351 Musket-shooting.
s-352 Curvetting & caracoling of the horsemen.
s-353 Outriders.
s-354 Horsemen riding to one side, scorning the perils.'
s-355 And a few days later, on the barrenness of Judea, 'whitish mildew pervading whole tracts of landscape.
s-356 Village of Lepers houses facing the wall Zion.
s-357 Their park, a dung-heap.
s-358 They sit by the gates asking alms, then whine avoidance of them & horror.
s-359 Wandering among the tombs till I began to think myself one of the possessed with devils.'
s-360 Anwar Sadat's American visit.
s-361 You have to discuss this with Israelis before they will consent to talk about anything else.
s-362 An indignant librarian, a middle-aged woman whose face is so hot it is almost fragrant with indignation, demands of me in a superdistinguished all but Oxonian accent, 'How do you account for it!'
s-363 I shrug.
s-364 This is what I would say if I did answer her:
s-365 Americans love to open their hearts to foreign visitors.
s-366 These visitors are sometimes treated as if they were the heroes of an Arabian Nights' tale.
s-367 We'll show them how good we all are and well-meaning and generous and open-minded and evenhanded.
s-368 We will be full of emotion and the visitors will be correspondingly full of emotion, and after they have been wined and feted and dined and toasted and televised and paraded and clapped and the supplying of loans and atomic plants and military hardware has been discussed they will love us.
s-369 I trust that they will give us better love than they are getting from us, for ours is a very low-quality upward-seeping vegetable-sap sort of love, as short-lived as it is spontaneous.
s-370 As soon as they leave they are forgotten.
s-371 An old Mormon missionary in Nauvoo once gripped my knee hard as we sat side by side, and he put his arm about me and called me 'Brother.'
s-372 We'd only met ten minutes before.
s-373 He took me to his good bosom.
s-374 His eyes began to mist.
s-375 I was a prospect, an exotic prospect in old tennis shoes and a sweatshirt.
s-376 His heart opened to me.
s-377 It opened like a cuckoo clock.
s-378 But it did not give me the time of day.
s-379 'But don't Americans know that Sadat was a Nazi?' the librarian says.
s-380 Well, yes, well-informed people do have this information in their files.
s-381 The New York Times is sure to have it, but the Times as I see it is a government within a government It has a state department of its own, and its high councils have probably decided that it would be impolitic at this moment to call attention to Sadat's admiration for Hitler.
s-382 I tell the lady that I have sent a copy of a eulogy of Hitler written by Sadat in 1953 to Sydney Gruson of the Times and also to Katharine Graham of The Washington Post.
s-383 'Will they print it?' she asked.
s-384 'Difficult to guess,' I tell her.
s-385 'The Times ought to be stronger in politics than it is in literature, but who knows.
s-386 Of course it must do financial news and sports well enough.
s-387 If it covered ball games as badly as it reviews books, the fans would storm it like the Bastille.
s-388 Book readers evidently haven't got the passionate intensity of sports fans.'
s-389 What disturbs is whether Americans understand the world at all, whether they are a match for the Russians the Sadats are in themselves comparatively unimportant.
s-390 To dissident Russian writers like Lev Navrozov, the Americans can never be a match for the Russians.
s-391 He quotes from Dostoevski's The House of the Dead a conversation between the writer and a brutal murderer, one of those criminals who fascinated him.
s-392 I haven't the book handy, so I paraphrase.
s-393 'Why are you so kind to me?' Dostoevski asks.
s-394 And the murderer, speaking to one of the geniuses of the nineteenth century, answers, 'Because you are so simple that one can not help feeling sorry for you.'
s-395 Even when he robbed Dostoevski, he pitied him as one might 'a little cherub-like child.'
s-396 Navrozov, exceedingly intelligent but, to a Westerner, curiously deformed (how could an independent intellectual in the Soviet Union escape deformity?), sees us, the Americans, as children at whom the Stalins smile through their mustachios.
s-397 Perhaps there is a certain Vautrin-admiring romanticism in this.
s-398 People were arriving, and the younger one was walking back and forth introducing them.
s-399 The old one sat on her chair.
s-400 Her flat cloth slippers were propped up on a foot-warmer, and a cat reposed on her lap.
s-401 She wore a starched white affair on her head, had a wart on one cheek, and silver-rimmed spectacles hung on the tip of her nose.

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