Sir Sidney Low blamed the recent catalogue of war and revolution
on out-of-touch diplomats who had tried to hammer the peoples of Europe into artificial unity.
Hassan slipped across to Ithaca because it was in British
hands and the Turkish authorities on the Greek mainland must not know what he was going to do.
On July 5th, 1535, the night before he was to be executed by order of King
Henry VIII, it seemed that Sir Thomas More was the only man in the Tower of London who was happy.