You Can Keep A Dog:

The Country Has Always Been Governed By A Coalition But Today It Is Governed By A So-called Grand Coalition Which Is A More Polite Word For All And Sundry.

Japan Suffered Terribly From The Atomic Bomb But Never Adopted A Pose Of Moral Superiority, Implying: 'we Would Never Have Done It!' The Japanese Know Perfectly Well They Would Have Used It Had They Had It. They Accept The Idea That War Is War; They Give No Quarter And Accept None. Total War, They Recognize, Knows No Queensberry Rules. If You Develop A Devastating New Weapon During A Total War, You Use It; You Do Not Put It Into The War Museum.

When A Wicked And Unworthy Subject Annoyed The Sultan Of Turkey Or The Czar Of Russia, He Had His Head Cut Of Without Much Ceremony; But When The Same Happened In England, The Monarch Declared : "we Are Not Amused".

Was He Joking? Was He Being Sarcastic? Aggressive? Impertinent? Or Just Courteous? There Was No Telling From His Impassive Face. What A Country, He Thought Despairingly. In Russia You Always Knew. If A Man Made A Stern Face He Was Threatening; If He Was Laughing Uproariously, He Was Joking.

Bad English Was The Second Language Of Israel And Bad Hebrew, Of Course, Remained The National Language.