G'morning Heather, 

 MM> Unless the Rev Williams invented a `Malice in Blunderland'
 MM> language for the natives,  wherein words can mean whatever you
 MM> want them to mean...

 HL> Proof of that in the literal translation of the Treaty. ;-)))

As against the various imagined versions currently in vogue ?

 HL>  - Tact is for weenies.

Even though more of it might well have helped the Horrible one 
through this last fortnight better...

:-))
 
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