Podium: Strobe Talbott - Shaping the crooked timber of humanity From a lecture on Sir Isaiah Berlin by the US Deputy Secretary of State, delivered at All Souls College, Oxford

The Independent - London | January 24, 2000 | Copyright

I MET Isaiah Berlin 32 years ago, during my first visit to Oxford. It was in the summer of 1968. I was working as a summer intern in the London bureau of Time magazine. Just before midnight on 21 August, Soviet tanks overran Czechoslovakia and crushed the Prague Spring. The Time bureau chief sent me out to Wolfson College to interview Berlin on what it all meant. I remember the conversation clearly. He talked, at great speed but with great clarity, about how the invasion proved the weakness of a regime that relied so utterly on brute strength, and how it revealed - I remember to this day the ...

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