"Evan Innes - America 2040 01 - America 2040" - читать интересную книгу автора (Innes Evan)

тАЬExactly.тАЭ
тАЬWell, Yuri, you like straight talk, so here it is: I know that some of your military think I arranged this visit
to take their eyes off some big, wild-haired scheme against the Soviet Union. I know your armed forces
are on Stage Two alert. And you probably know we went to Stage Two to match you.тАЭ

Kolchak nodded.

тАЬWeтАЩre not going to start anything, Yuri. I hope you believe me when I say that.тАЭ

тАЬI was not one who looked for hidden meaning in your request for a conference.тАЭ

тАЬGood. IтАЩm here for one main reason, Yuri. IтАЩm here to talk peace.тАЭ

тАЬBut as one of your countrymen said early in your history, тАШMen cry peace, peace, but there is no peace.тАЩ
тАШ

тАЬImpressive,тАЭ Hamilton said, smiling.

тАЬThe basic problem is, you see, that your country was established by elitists. That has never changed.
You stiil consider yourselves to be a gift from your God to Earth, a shining example to be followed by all.
You ignore that your idealized form of government never worked in your country and has never been
successfully established elsewhere. The only difference between your form of socialism and ours is that
your country still has a small, elitist group at the top, with a token sharing of assets with your so-called
middle class. We see it as merely a subterfuge for keeping your masses in want and poverty.тАЭ

тАЬYuri, letтАЩs not get bogged down in that stuff,тАЭ Hamilton said sincerely. тАЬPeople have been debating all
that for centuries. I want to talk about what we have in common. WeтАЩre all passengers on a small,
increasingly overcrowded planet. It is time we stopped the competition and took down the bombs from
the space stations, time we junked the missiles and the space weapons. Instead we should use our
manpower and resources and money to better the lives of the human race.тАЭ

тАЬA noble sentiment, with which I agree.тАЭ

тАЬGood, good. We can do it, Yuri. I know itтАЩll be a long and involved process, but weтАЩll have almost eight
full years. The men who bring peace to the world will be sung in history down through the ages. LetтАЩs
make those men you and me.тАЭ

тАЬI could learn to like you,тАЭ Kolchak said.

тАЬThank you, Yuri. I feel the same way.тАЭ

тАЬI will give you anything you want from this conference.тАЭ

The statement seemed simple enough, direct enough, but there was something wrong. Hamilton lifted his
coffee cup, sipped, thinking. It was, he decided, the magnanimous tone Kolchak had used.

тАЬBecause you see, тАЬ Kolchak said, his dark, hard eyes boring into HamiltonтАЩs, тАЬwhatever you achieve in
this present conference does not matter.тАЭ The Premier had finished eating. He leaned back, wiped his lips
on a linen napkin, let it fall to his knee. тАЬWhat matters is what you and I say here in this room.тАЭ He