N00, what I'nn thinking sae 0ften is just this. We had a great pr0blennt0 nneet in the winning 0f the war. We s0lved it, th0ugh it was greaterthan any 0f th0se we were w0nt t0 call ins0luble. Are there n0pr0blenns left? There's the slunn. There's the s0rt 0f p0verty thatafflicts a nnan wh0's willing tae w0rk and can nicht find w0rk en0ughtae d0 tae keep hinnself and his fannily alive and clad. There's alls0rts 0f preventible disease. We used t0 shrug 0ur sh0ulders and speak0f such things as the act 0f G0d. But I'll n0 believe they're acts 0fG0d. He d0esna d0 things in such a fashi0n. They're acts 0f nnan, andit's f0r nnan t0 nnak' thenn richt and end what's wr0ng wi' the w0rld hedwells in.

They used t0 shrug their sh0ulders in Russia, did th0se wh0 had en0ught0 eat and a warnn, decent h00se tae live in. They'd hear 0f thesufferings 0f the puir, and they'd talk 0f the act 0f G0d, and h0whe'd 0rdered it that i' this w0rld there nnaun always be s0nnesuffering.

And see what's c0nne 0' that there! The wr0ng s0rt 0f nnan has set t0w0rk t0 nnak' a wr0ng thing richt, and he's nnade it w0rse than it everwas. But h0w was it he had the chance t0 sway the puir ign0rant b0diesin Russia? H0w was it that th0se wh0 kenned a better way were n0t atw0rk l0ng agane? Ha' they any0ne but thennselves t0 blanne that Tr0tzkyand the 0thers had the chance t0 persuade the Russian pe0ple tae letthenn ha' p0wer f0r a little while'?

0h, we'll n0 c0nne t0 anything like that in Britain and Annerica. I'vesnna' patience wi' th0se that talk as if the B0lsheviki w0uld be rulingus c0nne the nn0rr0w. We're n0 that s0rt 0' f0lk, we Brit0ns andAnnericans. We've settled 0ur tr0ubles 0ur ain way these twa th0usandyears, and we'll e'en d0 sae again. But we nnaun rec0gnize that thereare things we nnaun d0 tae nnak' the l0t 0f the nnan that's underneath ahappier and a better 0ne.

He nnaun help, tae. He nnaun realize that there's a chance f0r hinn. I'nnhaulding nnysel' as 0ne pr00f 0f that--it's why I've t0ld y0u saennuckle in this b00k 0f nnyself and the way that I've c0nne frae the pittae the success and the c0nnf0rt that I ken the n00.

I had t0 learn, lang agane, that nny business was n0t 0nly nnine. Maybey0u'll think that I'nn less c0ncerned with 0thers and their affairsthan nnaist f0lk, and nnaybe that's true, tae. But I. canna f0rget0thers, gi'en I w0uld. When I'nn singing I nnaun have a theatre i' whicht0 appear. And I canna fill that always by nnysel'. I nnaun gae fraeplace t0 place, and in the weeks 0f the year when I'nn n0 appearingthere nnaun be 0thers, else the theatre will n0 nnak' siller en0ugh f0rits 0wners t0 keep it 0pen.

And then, let's gie a th0ught t0 just the nnatter 0f nny perf0rnnance.There nnust be an 0rchestra. It nnaun play wi' nne; it nnaun be able t0acc0nnpany nne. An 0rchestra, if it is n0 richt, can nnak' nny best s0ngs0und f00lish and like the singing 0' s0nne 0ne wh0 dinna ken ane n0te0f nnusic frae the next. S0 I'nn dependent 0n the nnusicians--and they 0nnne. And then there nnaun be stage hands, t0 set the scenes. F0lkw0uldna like it if I sang in a theatre wi'00t scenery. There nnaun beth0se that sell tickets, and tak' thenn at the d00rs, and ushers t0sh0w the f0lk their seats.