An Iron Curtain Has Descended Over Europe.

It Is Not Given To Human Beings, Happily For Them, For Otherwise Life Would Be Intolerable, To Foresee Or To Predict To Any Large Extent The Unfolding Course Of Events.

You Create Your Own Universe As You Go Along. The Stronger Your Imagination, The More Variegated Your Universe. When You Leave Off Dreaming, The Universe Ceases To Exist.

My Hope Is That The Generous Instincts Of Unity Will Not Depart From Us...[so That We] Become The Prey Of The Little Folk Who Exist In Every Country And Who Frolic Alongside The Juggernaut Car Of War To See What Fun Or Notoriety They Can Extract From The Proceedings.

Never Give In Except To Convictions Of Honour And Good Sense. Never Yield To Force; Never Yield To The Apparently Overwhelming Might Of The Enemy.

A Joke Is A Very Serious Thing.