Arab and Turk.

Submitted by Geoffrey Lewis (United States), Nov 27, 2007 at 06:42

An odd chance took me to the last of the Six Days. I had been invited to Ankara for a few weeks to see how the Prime Minister's office operated. The conduct of the senior Civil Servants was impressive, never going home until their in-trays and out-trays were empty, and taking under three-quarters of an hour for lunch while the juniors had a full hour. On the last day of the Six, the talk at lunch was naturally about it. The Müsteşar, the person who in Britain would be the Permanent Under-Secretary, stopped the conversation by saying, ‘We Turks do not like people who start wars then whine when they're beaten.'

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