If and when . . .

If and when the advocates of democratic reform in the Soviet Union succeed, we can look forward also to the day when the repressed Eastern European peoples are allowed to choose their own political leadership freely. . . . Many forms of international cooperation about which now we can only dream would then become possible to make this a safer and more prosperous world. Once again the construction of a world legal order to replace the anarchy of competing nation-states would appear on the agenda of far-sighted and practical statesmen, and what seemed briefly possible after World War II would have a second chance.

Cord Meyer, Facing Reality: From World Federalism to the CIA. (New York: Harper & Row, 1980), 408-409.