Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.

The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.

Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. But liberty, you see, that precious child of our liberal democracy only two hundred years old, has one notable side effect. When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice. In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

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

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

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

If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy.