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When loyalty is outdated.(Commentary)(Op-Ed)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 19980313
Author:Grenier, Richard

When I first read E.M. Forster's "Two Cheers for Democracy" I was thoroughly confused. I was in England. Hitler was dead and gone. But the Cold War with the Soviet Union was raging. And here Forster, considered a moderate but patriotic man, wrote the following sentence (in the middle of a paragraph, if you please):

"If I ever have to choose between betraying a friend and betraying my country, I hope I have the guts to betray my country."

Later I learned Forster had made this statement in 1938, the year of Munich, while Hitler stood on his Siegfried Line on the ...

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