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you find out later that they hadn't the faintest intention of filling the order. This is one of their attributes. Of course, when they're smiling at you and bowing, they're figuring how to outwit you at the same time, but they make you feel so welcome and their manners are so impeccable that you find yourself bowing back half the day. There is also a great exchanging of cards. You have to have cards printed the minute you get there. There's a great deal of photographing too. They all go around with cameras slung around their necks. When somebody goes away for two days from an office, the whole office force comes down and bows them onto the train and then returns to greet them again when they get back. Of course this delays their work. It's a habit that imported American foremen and managers rage about, but they can't do anything about it.

In 1964 we did The Invisible Government, the story that I've told you about concerning the CIA. We did another book that year called Gideon's Trumpet by Anthony Lewis, which changed the laws of the United States. As a direct result of this book, any prisoner today must have a lawyer to represent him in court. It was a very heartening story of what can be done in America when we're not being torn apart by hideous and unnecessary war and military propaganda.

It also shows how a muck-raking book today can get through.