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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Summit + + +Author: Dallas McCord Reynolds + + + +Release Date: December 1, 2007 [eBook #23669] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SUMMIT*** + + +E-text prepared by Greg Weeks, Geetu Melwani, Bruce Albrecht, and the +Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team +(https://www.pgdp.net) + + + +Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this + file which includes the original illustration. + See 23669-h.htm or 23669-h.zip: + (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/3/6/6/23669/23669-h/23669-h.htm) + or + (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/3/6/6/23669/23669-h.zip) + + +Transcriber's note: + + This etext was produced from _Astounding Science Fiction_, + February, 1960. Extensive research did not uncover any + evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was + renewed. + + + + + +SUMMIT + +by + +MACK REYNOLDS + +Illustrated by Freas + + + + + + + +[Illustration] + +_Almost anything, if it goes on long enough, can be reduced to, first a +Routine, and then, to a Tradition. And at the point it is, obviously, +Necessary._ + + +Two king-sized bands blared martial music, the "_Internationale_" and +the "Star-Spangled Banner," each seemingly trying to drown the other in +a _Götterdämmerung_ of acoustics. + +Two lines of troops, surfacely differing in uniforms and in weapons, but +basically so very the same, so evenly matched, came to attention. A +thousand hands slapped a thousand submachine gun stocks. + +Marshal Vladimir Ignatov strode stiff-kneed down the long march, the +stride of a man for years used to cavalry boots. He was flanked by +frozen visaged subordinates, but none so cold of face as he himself. + +At the entrance to the conference hall he stopped, turned and waited. + +At the end of the corridor of troops a car stopped and several figures +emerged, most of them in civilian dress, several bearing brief cases. +They in their turn ran the gantlet. + +At their fore walked James Warren Donlevy, spritely, his eyes darting +here, there, politician-like. A half smile on his face, as though afraid +he might forget to greet a voter he knew, or was supposed to know. + +His hand was out before that of Vladimir Ignatov's. + +"Your Excellency," he said. + +Ignatov shook hands stiffly. Dropped that of the other's as soon as +protocol would permit. + +The field marshal indicated the door of the conference hall. "There is +little reason to waste time, Mr. President." + +"Exactly," Donlevy snapped. + + * * * * * + +The door closed behind them and the two men, one uniformed and +bemedaled, the other nattily attired in his business suit, turned to +each other. + +"Nice to see you again, Vovo. How're Olga and the baby?" + +The soldier grinned back in response. "Two babies now--you don't keep up +on the _real_ news, Jim. How's Martha?" They shook hands. + +"Not so good," Jim said, scowling. "I'm worried. It's that new cancer. +As soon as we conquer one type two more rear up. How are you people +doing on cancer research?" + +Vovo was stripping off his tunic. He hung it over the back of one of the +chairs, began to unbutton his high, tight military collar. "I'm not +really up on it, Jim, but I think that's one field where you can trust +anything we know to be in the regular scientific journals our people +exchange with yours. I'll make some inquiries when I get back home, +though. You never know, this new strain--I guess you'd call it--might be +one that we're up on and you aren't." + +"Yeah," Jim said. "Thanks a lot." He crossed to the small portable bar. +"How about a drink? Whisky, vodka, rum--there's ice." + +Vovo slumped into one of the heavy chairs that were arranged around the +table. He grimaced, "No vodka, I don't feel patriotic today. How about +one of those long cold drinks, with the cola stuff?" + +"Cuba libra," Jim said. "Coming up. Look, would you rather speak +Russian?" + +"No," Vovo said, "my English is getting rusty. I need the practice." + +Jim brought the glasses over and put them on the table. He began +stripping off his own coat, loosening his tie. "God, I'm tired," he +said. "This sort of thing wears me down." + +Vovo sipped his drink. "Now there's as good a thing to discuss as any, +in the way of killing time. The truth now, Jim, do you really believe in +a God? After all that's happened to this human race of ours, do you +really believe in divine guidance?" He twisted his mouth sarcastically. + +The other relaxed. "I don't know," he said. "I suppose so. I was raised +in a family that believed in God. Just as, I suppose, you were raised in +one that didn't." He lifted his shoulders slightly in a shrug. "Neither +of us seems to be particularly brilliant in establishing a position of +our own." + +Vovo snorted. "Never thought of it that way," he admitted. "We're +usually contemptuous of anyone still holding to the old beliefs. There +aren't many left." + +"More than you people admit, I understand." + +Vovo shook his heavy head. "No, not really. Mostly crackpots. Have you +ever noticed how it is that the nonconformists in any society are +usually crackpots? The people on your side that admit belonging to our +organizations, are usually on the wild eyed and uncombed hair side--I +admit it. On the other hand, the people in our citizenry who subscribe +to your system, your religion, that sort of thing, are crackpots, too. +Applies to religion as well as politics. An atheist in your country is a +nonconformist--in mine, a Christian is. Both crackpots." + +Jim laughed and took a sip of his drink. + +Vovo yawned and said, "How long are we going to be in here?" + +"I don't know. Up to us, I suppose." + +"Yes. How about another drink? I'll make it. How much of that cola stuff +do you put in?" + +Jim told him, and while the other was on his feet mixing the drinks, +said, "You figure on sticking to the same line this year?" + +"Have to," Vovo said over his shoulder. "What's the alternative?" + +"I don't know. We're building up to a whale of a depression as it is, +even with half the economy running full blast producing defense +materials." + +Vovo chuckled, "Defense materials. I wonder if ever in the history of +the human race anyone ever admitted to producing _offense_ materials." + +"Well, you call it the same thing. All your military equipment is for +defense. And, of course, according to your press, all ours is for +offense." + +"Of course," Vovo said. + +He brought the glasses back and handed one to the other. He slumped back +into his chair again, loosened two buttons of his trousers. + +"Jim," Vovo said, "why don't you divert more of your economy to public +works, better roads, reforestation, dams--that sort of thing." + +Jim said wearily, "You're a better economist than that. Didn't your boy +Marx, or was it Engels, write a small book on the subject? We're already +overproducing--turning out more products than we can sell." + +"I wasn't talking about your government building new steel mills. But +dams, roads, that sort of thing. You could plow billions into such items +and get some real use out of them. We both know that our weapons will +never be used--they can't be." + +Jim ticked them off on his fingers. "We already are producing more farm +products than we know what to do with; if we build more dams it'll open +up new farm lands and increase the glut. If we build more and better +roads, it will improve transportation, which will mean fewer men will be +able to move greater tonnage--and throw transportation employees into +the unemployed. If we go all out for reforestation, it will eventually +bring down the price of lumber and the lumber people are howling +already. No," he shook his head, "there's just one really foolproof way +of disposing of surpluses and using up labor power and that's war--hot +or cold." + +Vovo shrugged, "I suppose so." + +"It amounts to building pyramids, of course." Jim twisted his mouth +sourly. "And since we're asking questions about each other's way of +life, when is your State going to begin to _wither away_?" + +"How was that?" Vovo asked. + +"According to your sainted founder, once you people came to power the +State was going to wither away, class rule would be over, and Utopia be +on hand. That was a long time ago, and your State is stronger than +ours." + +Vovo snorted. "How can we wither away the State as long as we are +threatened by capitalist aggression?" + +Jim said, "Ha!" + +Vovo went on. "You know better than that, Jim. The only way my +organization can keep in power is by continually beating the drums, +keeping our people stirred up to greater and greater sacrifices by using +you as a threat. Didn't the old Romans have some sort of maxim to the +effect that when you're threatened with unease at home stir up trouble +abroad?" + +"You're being even more frank than usual," Jim said. "But that's one of +the pleasures of these get-togethers, neither of us resorts to +hypocrisy. But you can't keep up these tensions forever." + +"You mean _we_ can't keep up these tensions forever, Jim. And when they +end? Well, personally I can't see my organization going out without a +blood bath." He grimaced sourly, "And since I'd probably be one of the +first to be bathed, I'd like to postpone the time. It's like having a +tiger by the tail, Jim. We can't let go." + +"Happily, I don't feel in the same spot," Jim said. He got up and went +to the picture window that took up one entire wall. It faced out over a +mountain vista. He looked soberly into the sky. + +Vovo joined him, glass in hand. + +"Possibly your position isn't exactly the same as ours but there'll be +some awfully great changes if that military based economy of yours +suddenly had peace thrust upon it. You'd have a depression such as +you've never dreamed of. Let's face reality, Jim, neither of us can +afford peace." + +"Well, we've both known that for a long time." + + * * * * * + +They both considered somberly, the planet Earth blazing away, a small +sun there in the sky. + +Jim said, "I sometimes think that the race would have been better off, +when man was colonizing Venus and Mars, if it had been a joint +enterprise rather than you people doing one, and we the other. If it had +all been in the hands of that organization ..." + +"The United Nations?" Vovo supplied. + +"... Then when Bomb Day hit, perhaps these new worlds could have gone on +to, well, better things." + +"Perhaps," Vovo shrugged. "I've often wondered how Bomb Day started. Who +struck the spark." + +"Happily there were enough colonists on both planets to start the race +all over again," Jim said. "What difference does it make, who struck the +spark?" + +"None, I suppose." Vovo began to button his collar, readjust his +clothes. "Well, shall we emerge and let the quaking multitudes know that +once again we have made a shaky agreement? One that will last until the +next summit meeting." + + +THE END. + + + + * * * * * + + + +Transcriber's Note + +In two places in the text the word "reforestration" was corrected to +"reforestation." + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SUMMIT*** + + +******* This file should be named 23669-8.txt or 23669-8.zip ******* + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/3/6/6/23669 + + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at <a href = "http://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></pre> +<p>Title: Summit</p> +<p>Author: Dallas McCord Reynolds</p> +<p>Release Date: December 1, 2007 [eBook #23669]</p> +<p>Language: English</p> +<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p> +<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SUMMIT***</p> +<p> </p> +<h3>E-text prepared by Greg Weeks, Geetu Melwani, Bruce Albrecht,<br /> + and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br /> + (http://www.pgdp.net)</h3> +<p> </p> +<p class="tr"> <b>Transcriber's note.</b><br /> +<br />This etext was produced from <i>Astounding Science Fiction</i>, +February, 1960. Extensive research did not uncover any +evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> + +<h1>SUMMIT</h1> + +<h2>By MACK REYNOLDS</h2> + +<h3>Illustrated by Freas</h3> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/image1.png" width="600" height="269" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p><i>Almost anything, if it goes on long enough, can be reduced to, first a +Routine, and then, to a Tradition. And at the point it is, obviously, +Necessary.</i></p> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + +<p>Two king-sized bands blared martial music, the "<i>Internationale</i>" and +the "Star-Spangled Banner," each seemingly trying to drown the other in +a <i>Götterdämmerung</i> of acoustics.</p> + +<p>Two lines of troops, surfacely differing in uniforms and in weapons, but +basically so very the same, so evenly matched, came to attention. A +thousand hands slapped a thousand submachine gun stocks.</p> + +<p>Marshal Vladimir Ignatov strode stiff-kneed down the long march, the +stride of a man for years used to cavalry boots. He was flanked by +frozen visaged subordinates, but none so cold of face as he himself.</p> + +<p>At the entrance to the conference hall he stopped, turned and waited.</p> + +<p>At the end of the corridor of troops a car stopped and several figures +emerged, most of them in civilian dress, several bearing brief cases. +They in their turn ran the gantlet.</p> + +<p>At their fore walked James Warren Donlevy, spritely, his eyes darting +here, there, politician-like. A half smile on his face, as though afraid +he might forget to greet a voter he knew, or was supposed to know.</p> + +<p>His hand was out before that of Vladimir Ignatov's.</p> + +<p>"Your Excellency," he said.</p> + +<p>Ignatov shook hands stiffly. Dropped that of the other's as soon as +protocol would permit.</p> + +<p>The field marshal indicated the door of the conference hall. "There is +little reason to waste time, Mr. President."</p> + +<p>"Exactly," Donlevy snapped.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>The door closed behind them and the two men, one uniformed and +bemedaled, the other nattily attired in his business suit, turned to +each other.</p> + +<p>"Nice to see you again, Vovo. How're Olga and the baby?"</p> + +<p>The soldier grinned back in response. "Two babies now—you don't keep up +on the <i>real</i> news, Jim. How's Martha?" They shook hands.</p> + +<p>"Not so good," Jim said, scowling. "I'm worried. It's that new cancer. +As soon as we conquer one type two more rear up. How are you people +doing on cancer research?"</p> + +<p>Vovo was stripping off his tunic. He hung it over the back of one of the +chairs, began to unbutton his high, tight military collar. "I'm not +really up on it, Jim, but I think that's one field where you can trust +anything we know to be in the regular scientific journals our people +exchange with yours. I'll make some inquiries when I get back home, +though. You never know, this new strain—I guess you'd call it—might be +one that we're up on and you aren't."</p> + +<p>"Yeah," Jim said. "Thanks a lot." He crossed to the small portable bar. +"How about a drink? Whisky, vodka, rum—there's ice."</p> + +<p>Vovo slumped into one of the heavy chairs that were arranged around the +table. He grimaced, "No vodka, I don't feel patriotic today. How about +one of those long cold drinks, with the cola stuff?"</p> + +<p>"Cuba libra," Jim said. "Coming up. Look, would you rather speak +Russian?"</p> + +<p>"No," Vovo said, "my English is getting rusty. I need the practice."</p> + +<p>Jim brought the glasses over and put them on the table. He began +stripping off his own coat, loosening his tie. "God, I'm tired," he +said. "This sort of thing wears me down."</p> + +<p>Vovo sipped his drink. "Now there's as good a thing to discuss as any, +in the way of killing time. The truth now, Jim, do you really believe in +a God? After all that's happened to this human race of ours, do you +really believe in divine guidance?" He twisted his mouth sarcastically.</p> + +<p>The other relaxed. "I don't know," he said. "I suppose so. I was raised +in a family that believed in God. Just as, I suppose, you were raised in +one that didn't." He lifted his shoulders slightly in a shrug. "Neither +of us seems to be particularly brilliant in establishing a position of +our own."</p> + +<p>Vovo snorted. "Never thought of it that way," he admitted. "We're +usually contemptuous of anyone still holding to the old beliefs. There +aren't many left."</p> + +<p>"More than you people admit, I understand."</p> + +<p>Vovo shook his heavy head. "No, not really. Mostly crackpots. Have you +ever noticed how it is that the nonconformists in any society are +usually crackpots? The people on your side that admit belonging to our +organizations, are usually on the wild eyed and uncombed +hair side—I admit it. On the other hand, the people in our citizenry +who subscribe to your system, your religion, that sort of thing, are +crackpots, too. Applies to religion as well as politics. An atheist in +your country is a nonconformist—in mine, a Christian is. Both +crackpots."</p> + +<p>Jim laughed and took a sip of his drink.</p> + +<p>Vovo yawned and said, "How long are we going to be in here?"</p> + +<p>"I don't know. Up to us, I suppose."</p> + +<p>"Yes. How about another drink? I'll make it. How much of that cola stuff +do you put in?"</p> + +<p>Jim told him, and while the other was on his feet mixing the drinks, +said, "You figure on sticking to the same line this year?"</p> + +<p>"Have to," Vovo said over his shoulder. "What's the alternative?"</p> + +<p>"I don't know. We're building up to a whale of a depression as it is, +even with half the economy running full blast producing defense +materials."</p> + +<p>Vovo chuckled, "Defense materials. I wonder if ever in the history of +the human race anyone ever admitted to producing <i>offense</i> materials."</p> + +<p>"Well, you call it the same thing. All your military equipment is for +defense. And, of course, according to your press, all ours is for +offense."</p> + +<p>"Of course," Vovo said.</p> + +<p>He brought the glasses back and handed one to the other. He slumped back +into his chair again, loosened two buttons of his trousers.</p> + +<p>"Jim," Vovo said, "why don't you divert more of your economy to public +works, better roads, reforestation, +dams—that sort of thing."</p> + +<p>Jim said wearily, "You're a better economist than that. Didn't your boy +Marx, or was it Engels, write a small book on the subject? We're already +overproducing—turning out more products than we can sell."</p> + +<p>"I wasn't talking about your government building new steel mills. But +dams, roads, that sort of thing. You could plow billions into such items +and get some real use out of them. We both know that our weapons will +never be used—they can't be."</p> + +<p>Jim ticked them off on his fingers. "We already are producing more farm +products than we know what to do with; if we build more dams it'll open +up new farm lands and increase the glut. If we build more and better +roads, it will improve transportation, which will mean fewer men will be +able to move greater tonnage—and throw transportation employees into +the unemployed. If we go all out for reforestation, it +will eventually bring down the price of lumber and the lumber people are +howling already. No," he shook his head, "there's just one really +foolproof way of disposing of surpluses and using up labor power and +that's war—hot or cold."</p> + +<p>Vovo shrugged, "I suppose so."</p> + +<p>"It amounts to building pyramids, of course." Jim twisted his mouth +sourly. "And since we're asking questions about each other's way of +life, when is your State going to begin to <i>wither away</i>?"</p> + +<p>"How was that?" Vovo asked.</p> + +<p>"According to your sainted founder, once you people came to power the +State was going to wither away, class rule would be over, and Utopia be +on hand. That was a long time ago, and your State is stronger than +ours."</p> + +<p>Vovo snorted. "How can we wither away the State as long as we are +threatened by capitalist aggression?"</p> + +<p>Jim said, "Ha!"</p> + +<p>Vovo went on. "You know better than that, Jim. The only way my +organization can keep in power is by continually beating the drums, +keeping our people stirred up to greater and greater sacrifices by using +you as a threat. Didn't the old Romans have some sort of maxim to the +effect that when you're threatened with unease at home stir up trouble +abroad?"</p> + +<p>"You're being even more frank than usual," Jim said. "But that's one of +the pleasures of these get-togethers, neither of us resorts to +hypocrisy. But you can't keep up these tensions forever."</p> + +<p>"You mean <i>we</i> can't keep up these tensions forever, Jim. And when they +end? Well, personally I can't see my organization going out without a +blood bath." He grimaced sourly, "And since I'd probably be one +of the first to be bathed, I'd like to postpone the time. It's like +having a tiger by the tail, Jim. We can't let go."</p> + +<p>"Happily, I don't feel in the same spot," Jim said. He got up and went +to the picture window that took up one entire wall. It faced out over a +mountain vista. He looked soberly into the sky.</p> + +<p>Vovo joined him, glass in hand.</p> + +<p>"Possibly your position isn't exactly the same as ours but there'll be +some awfully great changes if that military based economy of yours +suddenly had peace thrust upon it. You'd have a depression such as +you've never dreamed of. Let's face reality, Jim, neither of us can +afford peace."</p> + +<p>"Well, we've both known that for a long time."</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>They both considered somberly, the planet Earth blazing away, a small +sun there in the sky.</p> + +<p>Jim said, "I sometimes think that the race would have been better off, +when man was colonizing Venus and Mars, if it had been a joint +enterprise rather than you people doing one, and we the other. If it had +all been in the hands of that organization ..."</p> + +<p>"The United Nations?" Vovo supplied.</p> + +<p>"... Then when Bomb Day hit, perhaps these new worlds could have gone on +to, well, better things."</p> + +<p>"Perhaps," Vovo shrugged. "I've often wondered how Bomb Day started. Who +struck the spark."</p> + +<p>"Happily there were enough colonists on both planets to start the race +all over again," Jim said. "What difference does it make, who struck the +spark?"</p> + +<p>"None, I suppose." Vovo began to button his collar, readjust his +clothes. "Well, shall we emerge and let the quaking multitudes know that +once again we have made a shaky agreement? One that will last until the +next summit meeting."</p> + + +<h3>THE END.</h3> + + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + + +<h4>Transcriber's Note</h4> + + +<p>In two places in the text the word "reforestration" was corrected to +"reforestation."</p> + +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<hr class="full" /> +<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SUMMIT***</p> +<p>******* This file should be named 23669-h.txt or 23669-h.zip *******</p> +<p>This and all associated files of various formats will be found in:<br /> +<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/3/6/6/23669">http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/6/6/23669</a></p> +<p>Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed.</p> + +<p>Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Summit + + +Author: Dallas McCord Reynolds + + + +Release Date: December 1, 2007 [eBook #23669] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SUMMIT*** + + +E-text prepared by Greg Weeks, Geetu Melwani, Bruce Albrecht, and the +Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team +(https://www.pgdp.net) + + + +Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this + file which includes the original illustration. + See 23669-h.htm or 23669-h.zip: + (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/3/6/6/23669/23669-h/23669-h.htm) + or + (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/3/6/6/23669/23669-h.zip) + + +Transcriber's note: + + This etext was produced from _Astounding Science Fiction_, + February, 1960. Extensive research did not uncover any + evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was + renewed. + + + + + +SUMMIT + +by + +MACK REYNOLDS + +Illustrated by Freas + + + + + + + +[Illustration] + +_Almost anything, if it goes on long enough, can be reduced to, first a +Routine, and then, to a Tradition. And at the point it is, obviously, +Necessary._ + + +Two king-sized bands blared martial music, the "_Internationale_" and +the "Star-Spangled Banner," each seemingly trying to drown the other in +a _Goetterdaemmerung_ of acoustics. + +Two lines of troops, surfacely differing in uniforms and in weapons, but +basically so very the same, so evenly matched, came to attention. A +thousand hands slapped a thousand submachine gun stocks. + +Marshal Vladimir Ignatov strode stiff-kneed down the long march, the +stride of a man for years used to cavalry boots. He was flanked by +frozen visaged subordinates, but none so cold of face as he himself. + +At the entrance to the conference hall he stopped, turned and waited. + +At the end of the corridor of troops a car stopped and several figures +emerged, most of them in civilian dress, several bearing brief cases. +They in their turn ran the gantlet. + +At their fore walked James Warren Donlevy, spritely, his eyes darting +here, there, politician-like. A half smile on his face, as though afraid +he might forget to greet a voter he knew, or was supposed to know. + +His hand was out before that of Vladimir Ignatov's. + +"Your Excellency," he said. + +Ignatov shook hands stiffly. Dropped that of the other's as soon as +protocol would permit. + +The field marshal indicated the door of the conference hall. "There is +little reason to waste time, Mr. President." + +"Exactly," Donlevy snapped. + + * * * * * + +The door closed behind them and the two men, one uniformed and +bemedaled, the other nattily attired in his business suit, turned to +each other. + +"Nice to see you again, Vovo. How're Olga and the baby?" + +The soldier grinned back in response. "Two babies now--you don't keep up +on the _real_ news, Jim. How's Martha?" They shook hands. + +"Not so good," Jim said, scowling. "I'm worried. It's that new cancer. +As soon as we conquer one type two more rear up. How are you people +doing on cancer research?" + +Vovo was stripping off his tunic. He hung it over the back of one of the +chairs, began to unbutton his high, tight military collar. "I'm not +really up on it, Jim, but I think that's one field where you can trust +anything we know to be in the regular scientific journals our people +exchange with yours. I'll make some inquiries when I get back home, +though. You never know, this new strain--I guess you'd call it--might be +one that we're up on and you aren't." + +"Yeah," Jim said. "Thanks a lot." He crossed to the small portable bar. +"How about a drink? Whisky, vodka, rum--there's ice." + +Vovo slumped into one of the heavy chairs that were arranged around the +table. He grimaced, "No vodka, I don't feel patriotic today. How about +one of those long cold drinks, with the cola stuff?" + +"Cuba libra," Jim said. "Coming up. Look, would you rather speak +Russian?" + +"No," Vovo said, "my English is getting rusty. I need the practice." + +Jim brought the glasses over and put them on the table. He began +stripping off his own coat, loosening his tie. "God, I'm tired," he +said. "This sort of thing wears me down." + +Vovo sipped his drink. "Now there's as good a thing to discuss as any, +in the way of killing time. The truth now, Jim, do you really believe in +a God? After all that's happened to this human race of ours, do you +really believe in divine guidance?" He twisted his mouth sarcastically. + +The other relaxed. "I don't know," he said. "I suppose so. I was raised +in a family that believed in God. Just as, I suppose, you were raised in +one that didn't." He lifted his shoulders slightly in a shrug. "Neither +of us seems to be particularly brilliant in establishing a position of +our own." + +Vovo snorted. "Never thought of it that way," he admitted. "We're +usually contemptuous of anyone still holding to the old beliefs. There +aren't many left." + +"More than you people admit, I understand." + +Vovo shook his heavy head. "No, not really. Mostly crackpots. Have you +ever noticed how it is that the nonconformists in any society are +usually crackpots? The people on your side that admit belonging to our +organizations, are usually on the wild eyed and uncombed hair side--I +admit it. On the other hand, the people in our citizenry who subscribe +to your system, your religion, that sort of thing, are crackpots, too. +Applies to religion as well as politics. An atheist in your country is a +nonconformist--in mine, a Christian is. Both crackpots." + +Jim laughed and took a sip of his drink. + +Vovo yawned and said, "How long are we going to be in here?" + +"I don't know. Up to us, I suppose." + +"Yes. How about another drink? I'll make it. How much of that cola stuff +do you put in?" + +Jim told him, and while the other was on his feet mixing the drinks, +said, "You figure on sticking to the same line this year?" + +"Have to," Vovo said over his shoulder. "What's the alternative?" + +"I don't know. We're building up to a whale of a depression as it is, +even with half the economy running full blast producing defense +materials." + +Vovo chuckled, "Defense materials. I wonder if ever in the history of +the human race anyone ever admitted to producing _offense_ materials." + +"Well, you call it the same thing. All your military equipment is for +defense. And, of course, according to your press, all ours is for +offense." + +"Of course," Vovo said. + +He brought the glasses back and handed one to the other. He slumped back +into his chair again, loosened two buttons of his trousers. + +"Jim," Vovo said, "why don't you divert more of your economy to public +works, better roads, reforestation, dams--that sort of thing." + +Jim said wearily, "You're a better economist than that. Didn't your boy +Marx, or was it Engels, write a small book on the subject? We're already +overproducing--turning out more products than we can sell." + +"I wasn't talking about your government building new steel mills. But +dams, roads, that sort of thing. You could plow billions into such items +and get some real use out of them. We both know that our weapons will +never be used--they can't be." + +Jim ticked them off on his fingers. "We already are producing more farm +products than we know what to do with; if we build more dams it'll open +up new farm lands and increase the glut. If we build more and better +roads, it will improve transportation, which will mean fewer men will be +able to move greater tonnage--and throw transportation employees into +the unemployed. If we go all out for reforestation, it will eventually +bring down the price of lumber and the lumber people are howling +already. No," he shook his head, "there's just one really foolproof way +of disposing of surpluses and using up labor power and that's war--hot +or cold." + +Vovo shrugged, "I suppose so." + +"It amounts to building pyramids, of course." Jim twisted his mouth +sourly. "And since we're asking questions about each other's way of +life, when is your State going to begin to _wither away_?" + +"How was that?" Vovo asked. + +"According to your sainted founder, once you people came to power the +State was going to wither away, class rule would be over, and Utopia be +on hand. That was a long time ago, and your State is stronger than +ours." + +Vovo snorted. "How can we wither away the State as long as we are +threatened by capitalist aggression?" + +Jim said, "Ha!" + +Vovo went on. "You know better than that, Jim. The only way my +organization can keep in power is by continually beating the drums, +keeping our people stirred up to greater and greater sacrifices by using +you as a threat. Didn't the old Romans have some sort of maxim to the +effect that when you're threatened with unease at home stir up trouble +abroad?" + +"You're being even more frank than usual," Jim said. "But that's one of +the pleasures of these get-togethers, neither of us resorts to +hypocrisy. But you can't keep up these tensions forever." + +"You mean _we_ can't keep up these tensions forever, Jim. And when they +end? Well, personally I can't see my organization going out without a +blood bath." He grimaced sourly, "And since I'd probably be one of the +first to be bathed, I'd like to postpone the time. It's like having a +tiger by the tail, Jim. We can't let go." + +"Happily, I don't feel in the same spot," Jim said. He got up and went +to the picture window that took up one entire wall. It faced out over a +mountain vista. He looked soberly into the sky. + +Vovo joined him, glass in hand. + +"Possibly your position isn't exactly the same as ours but there'll be +some awfully great changes if that military based economy of yours +suddenly had peace thrust upon it. You'd have a depression such as +you've never dreamed of. Let's face reality, Jim, neither of us can +afford peace." + +"Well, we've both known that for a long time." + + * * * * * + +They both considered somberly, the planet Earth blazing away, a small +sun there in the sky. + +Jim said, "I sometimes think that the race would have been better off, +when man was colonizing Venus and Mars, if it had been a joint +enterprise rather than you people doing one, and we the other. If it had +all been in the hands of that organization ..." + +"The United Nations?" Vovo supplied. + +"... Then when Bomb Day hit, perhaps these new worlds could have gone on +to, well, better things." + +"Perhaps," Vovo shrugged. "I've often wondered how Bomb Day started. Who +struck the spark." + +"Happily there were enough colonists on both planets to start the race +all over again," Jim said. "What difference does it make, who struck the +spark?" + +"None, I suppose." Vovo began to button his collar, readjust his +clothes. 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