Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.

I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.

It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.

When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.