Power, on the other hand, settles everything. It’s taken us some time, but we’ve realized this at last. For example, you must have noticed that our old Europe is finally thinking along the right lines. We don’t say any longer, as we used to in more innocent times: ‘There’s what I think. Now what are your objections?’ We’ve reached the age of lucidity: dialogue has been replaced by communiqués. ‘Here’s the truth,’ we say. ‘You can argue over it if you wish, we don’t care, but in a few years the police will come and show you I’m right.’
