Chapter 33

Now, although it is amusing to recall the blunders of a high official after his departure, it is not so entertaining to furnish material for subsequent anecdote, and one must be possessed of a peculiarly poignant sense of humour to thoroughly appreciate the travail in which these jests were born. The Administrator may or may not have deliberately set himself the task of annoying Sanders. From a strictly service aspect, a service which has for its ideal the perfection of British administration, to the exclusion of a…