Harrison Salisbury

In it, we invite people to come and talk to us who have seen and contributed a great deal to our recent history, to talk about the things that they've seen and the things that they've done.

This year, we've heard lectures by Harrison Salisbury, and by Murray Kempton, and an interview with the singers Bidu Sayo and Yamila Novotna, which was conducted by William Weaver.

Now tonight, as I said, and as you know, Jessica Mitford will be interviewed by Christopher Hitchens.

Mr. Hitchens is the American correspondent of London's Times Literary Supplement, He writes the Minority Report column in The Nation and contributes a weekly book review column to Newsday and contributes to a number of other magazines both here and in England.

You know, in reality...

Well, and to give you an idea, it was some years later, this one British diplomat, so I think he, I think this guy had been the ambassador briefly.

He talked about having lunch with Sari and Sari's wife, and he likened the man to Fred West and, and his wife, these two sex deviants who were serial killers in England, that the hyperbole was just ridiculous.

But I think this is interesting because this was before, uh, you know, the, the identity of the true control group of the, of the, uh, Communist Party of Kampuchea was even known.

I...

The Thais are less alien to the Khmer than the Vietnamese, I think.

And again, I'm not some regional studies guy, and I'm not an expert on Asian ethnicities.

But if we're gonna adopt the sort of French cultural anthropologic- anthropological paradigm of Southeast Asia literally being Indochina, where these two civilizational tendencies meet, all right, well, there's as much of India in Thailand as there is China, okay? The Vietnamese are very different.