ho taught us that the end justifies the means.
And so ruthless a dictatorship have they established that there is
literally no alternative. The only way to remove them is by violence.
Happily, so we believe, the violence need extend to only a small number
of the very highest of the hierarchy. Once they are eliminated and our
transmitters proclaim the new revolution, there should be little further
opposition."

Someone sighed deeply--Paul was able to pick up even that.

"Why discuss it further?" somebody whose voice Paul didn't recognize,
asked. "Let's get onto other things. These broadcasts of ours have to be
the ultimate in the presentation of our program. The assassination of
Number One and his immediate supporters is going to react unfavorably at
first. We're going to have to present unanswerable arguments if our
movement is to sweep the nation as we plan."

A new voice injected, "We've put the best writers in the Soviet Union to
work on the scripts. For all practical purposes they are completed."

"We haven't yet decided what to say about the H-Bomb, the missiles, all
the endless equipment of war that has accumulated under the Soviets, not
to speak of the armies, the ships, the aircraft and all the personnel
who man them."

Someone else, it sounded like Nikolai Kirichenko, from Moscow, said.
"I'm chairman of the committee on that. It's our opinion that we're
going to have to cover that matter in our broadcasts to the people and
the only answer is that until the West has agreed to nuclear
disarmament, we're going to have to keep our own."

Leonid said, and there was shock in his voice, "But that's one of the
most basic reasons for the new revolution, to eliminate this mad arms
race, this devoting half the resources of the world to armament."

"Yes, but what can we do? How do we know that the Western powers won't
attack? And please remember that it is no longer just the United States
that has nuclear weapons. If we lay down our defenses, we are capable of
being destroyed by England, France, West Germany, even Turkey or Japan!
And consider, too, that the economies of some of the Western powers are
based on the production of arms to the point that if such production
ended, overnight, depressions would sweep their nations. In short, they
can't afford a world without tensions."

"It's a problem for the future to solve," someone else said. "But
meanwhile I believe the committee is right. Until it is absolutely
pro