“We have about 50 percent of the world’s wealth,” he told the leaders of the US in 1948, “but only 6.3 percent of its population. In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relations which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity. To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day- dreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives.”
A brutal admission of "we will do whatever it takes to keep our wealth intact".
