From: "John Beamish" 

Malcolm Muggeridge was interviewing Lord Reith (he of the Reith lectures
and former head of the BBC).  MM asked Reith about his favourite form of
government.  Reith replied "Despotism tempered by assassination."

"Bill Lucy"  wrote in message
news:MPG.18c36a252f9e60c798b301{at}news.barkto.com...
> Out of darkness, Frank Haber says...
>
> Not quite the same plot, but Phillip K. Dick wrote his first novel "Solar
Lottery"
> (1955) based upon a close approximation. Assassination was a key to the
post-
> election politics.

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