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Governor got it all wrong in ejecting UK diplomats

By Editorial

In the words of wartime British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, “diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions”. The import of that statement is that there must be a civil way of communicating bad news. In deed, there must be a civil way of expressing displeasure.

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