Word: buckleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Where are your scars?" asked Buckley...
...evening wore on, Mr. Buckley's reception line lengthened. He would shake hands with Peron, though not Tito, and with British diplomats who had shaken with Communists--though he wouldn't feel good about it. Would he have shaken with FDR even though Buckley thought he had betrayed us into the Second World War and sold us out at Yalta? Yes, said Buckley, because there was a difference between "subjective" and "objective" treason...
This must have made an impression on the audience, for the hand-shaking subject dominated the question period. Asked whether he would have shaken hands with Vishinsky, Buckley said most decidedly not. Nor Stalin. Any Communist? No, he said. Did that mean he favored ending diplomatic relations with Russia? Yes. And would he boycott any international conference with Communists, given that it might involve shaking hands as a preliminary? Yes, Buckley favored no conference of that kind...
...would," Buckley replied, "but I would feel quite differently about...
After making it clear he would not have shaken hands with Hitler either, he tried to drop the subject. No luck. A student who had been to Europe on a Fulbright Scholarship asked him about Franco? Yes, said Buckley, he would shake hands with Franco. Franco and not Stalin? "The meaning of his life is different from that of Stalin...