"James Schuyler Grim, American, aged thirty-four or so.

I've heard he knows the ropes." The ropes, when I was in Jerusalem before the war, were principally used for hanging people at the Jaffa Gate, after they had been well beaten on the soles of their feet to compel them to tell where their money was hidden.

The Turks entirely understood the arts of suppression and extortion, which they defined as government.

The British, on the other hand, subject their normal human impulse to be greedy, and their educated craving to be gentlemanly white man's burden-bearers, to a process of compromise.
Perhaps that isn't government.

But it works.