Inflation-Up the Garden Path

tion between 'white' bribery and 'black' bribery, cannot be so innocent as not to cover himself sufficiently with protection precisely to meet such an eventuality as has overtaken his enterprises. By simply involving crucial lenders of the party in his private enterprises, starting with the Prime Minister downwards, and by clothing his private enterprises with the appearance of public and indeed official sanction and patronage, he has tried to ensure that not merely nothing will happen to his enterprises, but that every new revelation about them will probably strengthen his own position further.