People are torn between the pathetic safety of not knowing, and the desire to know.

It is not often that you see life and fiction take each other by the hand and dance.

Such is the control, and such the public mentality, enjoyed by the Swedish planners. The rulers of the Soviet Union, although favoured by despotic power, are not so fortunate. Obstructively resentful of officialdom, the Russian, in the words of the Spanish saying, has always known how orders are 'to be obeyed but not carried out'. To the Swede, that sort of compromise is downright immoral. His elected leaders have received those political blessings denied the autocrats in the Kremlin: compliant citizens and an unopposed bureaucracy.

I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal

If you are a military man, you know that you just don't do these sorts of things, ... they have to do what they have to do to get it.

If you are a military man you know that you just don't do these sorts of things because once you give just the slightest bit of leeway there are those in the armed forces who will take advantage of that,