It is not that I am asking the President to surrender. It is that he must now make us wise to why he does not feel he has to reconsider. Having received a range of arguments does he not consider them rational and if so why not. Not whether he believes Mr Panday s push is meet or good. The point has been pounced open by the people, some for, some against, some with half a foot in both camps and one foot fidgeting to get the other out.
Cerebral confusion is, perhaps, the perquisite to clarity.
Mr Robinson must be careful that he does not let pride overwhelm him. That he does not allow himself, like he warned us, to be egged on by emotion and see this as a battle between himself and the Prime Minister, whatever hostilities their mutual careers may have engendered. For him to do so would be for him to demean the great enterprise on which he has set the ship of state. Whatever he does it will not founder but in the twilight of his career he might want to go out with sails billowing. Whatever his chagrin at Mr Panday s latest speech, let the record show that he continues to exercise political restraint.