Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.

If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states.

ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.