It's A Necessary Quality Of A Diplomat

If Wellington Epitomizes The English Gentleman, Eisenhower Epitomizes The Natural American Gentleman.

It's A Necessary Quality Of A Diplomat Or A Politician That He Will Compromise. Uncompromising Politicians Or Diplomats Get You Into The Most Terrible Trouble.

The Second World War Is The Largest Single Event In Human History, Fought Across Six Of The World's Seven Continents And All It Oceans. It Killed 50 Million Human Beings, Left Hundreds Of Millions Of Others Wounded In Mind Or Body And Materially Devastated Much Of The Heartland Of Civilization.

We Forget Today That Britain Still Depends For Its Livelihood And, Indeed, Its Day-to-day Survival, On The Sea. But The Royal Navy Is Now Pitifully Small And Has Been Reduced In Size By The Current Government, Seeking Economies To Finance Its Social Programmes. Fine While There Is No Threat To Our Security. But What Use Would Schools And Hospitals Be If We Could Not Protect Our Imports?

The Revival Of Islam Dates From The Early Years Of The 20th Century. It Was Brought About By Their Humiliation, By Their Sense Of How Low They'd Fallen Compared With The West.