Only now was he throwing in his lot with a US government that detested the idealistic but ramshackle coalition of six parties headed by Dr Salvador Allende, the country doctor and upstanding freemason who was set on introducing elements of social democracy in a country long organised for the benefit of the landowners, industrialists and money men.
I became interested in how people who were upstanding in other walks of life would join an organisation that committed atrocities," Richardson said.
Inside are over 18,000 Indian-Americans, as prosperous and upstanding a diaspora as you will find from the Redwood forests to the Gulf Stream waters.
In muted ways, America has experienced versions of this same conflict, between cynical rulers and upstanding provincial types.
With all due credit to upstanding statesmen like Mr Kohl and his ilk, fans should greet these barbarians at the gate with flowers, not pitchforks.
You can't kill yourself and collect on life insurance, or burn down your own house and collect on fire insurance.It's perfectly legal and morally upstanding to short the housing market.
And in a fading corner of their cultural memory, haunted by self-righteous but upstanding Victorians such as Harris, is perhaps a small feeling that the creators of cricket should hold India to a higher standard.
In Britain, whatever else a "metropolitan" may be, he cannot be one of the yeomen William Hague, the Conservative leader, called "fine upstanding citizens" for blockading the fuel refineries during the summer's petrol-tax protests.
In country after country monetary policy has been taken away from unreliable politicians and handed to upstanding central bankers.
Are the American people interested in paying that money, complying with that police state, or inflicting that level of cruelty on otherwise upstanding immigrants?
Though Mr Major was actually arguing for a strong economy and good public services, the speech came to be seen as an assertion of the clean-living, upstanding credentials of his Conservative Party.
