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.
Amid the Don Pacifico Affair, William Gladstone told Lord Palmerston that
pride in his own country did not excuse bossing others about like a global schoolmaster.