oral society, reverses our stress:

     In the United States and England it is the freedom of 
     expression, the right itself in the abstract, that is valued. 
     . . . In the Soviet Union, on the other hand, the results  of 
     exercising freedom are in the forefront of attention, and 
     the preoccupation with the freedom itself is secondary. It 
     is for this reason that the discussions between Soviet and 
     Anglo-American representatives characteristically reach 
     absolutely no agreement on specific proposals, although 
     both sides assert that there should be freedom of the 
     press. The American is usually talking about freedom of 
     expression , the right to say or not to say certain things, a 
     right which he claims exists in the United States and not 
     in the Soviet Union. The Soviet representative is usually 
     talking about access  to the means  of expression, not to