TURKEY’S ATTITUDE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1941, Page 7

TURKEY’S ATTITUDE

PIGEONS AND THE KITE. The former Greek Minister in London, Mr Demetrius Caclamanos, writing in the “Contemporary Review,” says:—Without referring expressly to the attitude of Turkey, I will conclude by mentioning a fable published recently in “The Times,” though I think incorrectly attributed to Aesop. Aesop, or an imitator, gives a lesson of wisdom, wrapped in a parable, as follows: —‘Some pigeons had long lived in fear of a kite, but by being always on the alert and keeping near their dovecot, they had contrived hitherto to escape the attacks of the enemy. Finding his sallies unsuccessful, the kite betook, himself to craft. “Why,’ said he, ‘do you prefer this life of continual anxiety, when if you would only make me your king I would secure you from every attack that could be made upon you?’ The pigeons, trusting to his professions, called him to the throne, but no soonei* was he established there than he exercised his prerogative by devouring a pigeon a day. Whereupon one that yet awaited his turn said no more than ‘lt serves us right.’ ”