12/21/2018
John Derbyshire’s “Nations Are The Wealth Of Mankind” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn. That Includes The Historic American Nation.
From: An Ango-Canadian Reader
Peter Brimelow’s use of the Solzhenitsyn quote actually predates Alien Nation by quite some time. His earlier book on Canada, The Patriot Game (1987) of which I possess a signed copy and still pass round, also uses that quote as a counterpoint to Trudeaupian globalism/internationalism/pro
.jpg)
From Chapter 11, p.277
It is the issue of Quebec’s separation in itself that seemed to upset people however. In 1977, Pierre Trudeau even told a joint session of the U.S. Congress that it would be "a crime against the history of mankind." Washington was understandably distracted by the spectacle of Margaret Trudeau attending a White House dinner in a short dress and with a run in her stocking. But someone should have remembered that it was an American president, Woodrow Wilson, who used to talk about the principle of self-determination, and imposed it on a reluctant Europe after World War I. Trudeau’s worldview was in essence the one opposed by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his Nobel Prize address, part of which forms this chapter’s epigraph: "Nations are the wealth of mankind, they are its generalized personalities: the smallest ofthem has its own particular colors and embodies a particular facet of God’s design."
There was nothing inherently ignoble or illiberal about Quebec separatism. And for English Canada, it was a solution, not a problem. The opportunity was missed by a degenerate leadership. But it will recur.
This is a content archive of VDARE.com, which Letitia James forced off of the Internet using lawfare.