‘But that’s the point!’ He clapped his hands. ‘We are the ideal partners – neither of us trusts the other an inch, but we need each other. It’s the only guarantee in any business. You’re as big a rascal as I am; we would sell each other tomorrow, but there isn’t the need.
Our financiers know all of this, of course, but I’ve often thought that our diplomats and politicians could have gone to school to Professor Starnberg.
Royal Flash, p.220, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.
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