It is not my purpose in this memoir to instill feelings of hostility in Americans toward the Soviet people, or to complicate in any way efforts to promote peace. The world has enought madmen trying to do that.
I was tired after six and one-half tumultuous years, and I felt that memoirs couldeasily be self-serving. Turn over the documents to the historians, I thought. Soon my energy returned and, as I looked into my record, I felt a renewed sense of excitement about what had happaned on my watch, and a desire to set out the flow of events as they appeared from my own point of view.
For much of the twentieth century, the main fault line of Western Europe's political landscape has run between left and right, between those wanting more planning, state control and redistribution of wealth, and those want- ing less. By the 1990s, however, the left had accepted much of the right's free-market philosophy. Only fine gradations separated their economic policies.
Onder de titel het oude Nederlands-Indië" verscheen 13 september 1971 het eerste deel van mijn memoires. Dit behelsde herinneringen uit mijn Indische loopbaan als rechterlijk ambtenaar van 1919-1939, laatstelijk officier van justitie te Makassar en te Semarang, en als par lementariër van 1927-1931 lid van de Volksraad en van 1939-1942 zijn laatste voorzitter. Dat deel loopt tot de capitulatie…
To politicians he was an intellectual. To intellectuals he was a politician. To others he was a shining beacon of hope. Adlai Stevenson's combination of eloquence, vision, sophistication, and popular appeal has few equals in American national life and for many he has remained one of the last great political heroes of our time.