"Yes. For the time," Watson nodded.
"Very well. Then this is _our_ progress report. In the past forty years
we have eliminated feudalism in all the more advanced countries. Even in
the remote areas the pressures of our changing world are bringing them
around. The populace of these countries will no longer stand to one side
while the standard of living on the rest of Genoa grows so rapidly. On
most of our planet, already the average family not only enjoys freedom
but a way of life far in advance of that of Texcoco. Already modern
housing and household appliances are everywhere. Already both land cars
and aircraft are available to the majority. The nations have formed an
Inter-Continental League of governments so that it is unlikely that war
will ever touch us again. And this is merely a beginning. In ten years,
continuing our freely competitive way of developing, all will be living
on a scale that only the wealthy can afford today."
He came to an end and stared antagonistically at the Texcocans.