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"He knows nothing of friendship... He is cruel, simply because he cannot conceived the feelings of anybody but himself and is not interested in them. He is a master over things, and over men so long as he can treat them as things."
"His instruments? The Press, for one thing. ... The politicians, too, and every kind of fool organisation for boost and uplift."
John Buchan wrote that in 1929 in one of his novels, The Courts of the Morning.
Mussolini is mentioned in an earlier paragraph, but this is a description of a dangerous man who wants to destroy democracy. The biggest difference I can find between this character and our current president is the fictional character is intellectually brilliant.
It is passages like these that lead me to believe the rumor that Buchan was Chief of Security Operations at MI6 (or MI5 -- reports vary). It's either that or, good Scotsman that he was, he had a touch of the sight.
"His instruments? The Press, for one thing. ... The politicians, too, and every kind of fool organisation for boost and uplift."
John Buchan wrote that in 1929 in one of his novels, The Courts of the Morning.
Mussolini is mentioned in an earlier paragraph, but this is a description of a dangerous man who wants to destroy democracy. The biggest difference I can find between this character and our current president is the fictional character is intellectually brilliant.
It is passages like these that lead me to believe the rumor that Buchan was Chief of Security Operations at MI6 (or MI5 -- reports vary). It's either that or, good Scotsman that he was, he had a touch of the sight.
