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Alistair Horne
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“It is not in South-east Asia, the Middle East or Africa that the ideological battle of the seventies seems likely to be waged, but in South America. Here, one feels, may well be the battleground where the orthodoxy of Soviet communism will triumph definitively over Maoism, or vice versa.”
Alistair Horne (1925–2017) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Small Earthquake in Chile (1972; 1990), p. 26
“But what really matters is...the question: "How many divisions does the Pope have?" In Chile it has been the concentrated fire power of the "divisions" of militant trade unionists that has enabled Allende to carry through his revolutionary programme (thereby, incidentally, bringing the economy to ruin and the country to the verge of civil war). And, in the British context of, say, 1980, on whose side could one count the comparable trade union "divisions"? With the "Lib-Labs" or the "Soc-Labs"?”
Alistair Horne (1925–2017) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to The Times (6 August 1973), p. 13
“Above all, what was most lacking on the French side was the will to fight. The memories of the 1,500,000 dead of the First World War, the sapping effects of the Front Populaire, the unhelpfulness of Britain as a military partner in the interwar years (even by September 1939 four divisions were all she could send to France), appeasement, Hitler's bloodless victories and the appallingly swift smashing-up of Poland had all left their mark, as had the lethargy of the months of the "phoney war".”
Alistair Horne (1925–2017) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'Five days that changed the world', The Times Saturday Review (10 May 1980), p. 8
“I was in Chile shortly after Allende came to power, and predicted the economic ruin to which his regime reduced the country. That, coupled with the recent escalation in the arming of extreme left-wing para-military groups, seemed to make at least a temporary military take-over inevitable sooner or later, if all-out civil war was to be averted. The activities of Señor Corvalán's Communist Party, sub rosa, indeed bore a large responsibility for the chaos and generation of hatreds which led to the present intervention by the military. Equally...Chile is now in a "kind of civil war", and therefore draconian measures (of brief duration, one hopes) by the new regime have to be expected.”
Alistair Horne (1925–2017) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to The Times (10 October 1973), p. 10