Tel-Aviv airport is still the only airport in the world where each passenger is met by ten relatives.

They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a national language, entirely their own, unlike any other language spoken on the earth.

Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language.

Nobody uses his car in New York, because so many people use it that traffic is congested and unbearably slow.

Australians are decent people with the right instincts and they wish everybody well; but if all is not well, it is none of their business and they will not lose too much sleep over it. The shrug of the shoulders has become - only temporarily, I daresay - the national gesture of Australia.

If somebody tells you an obviously untrue story, on the Continent you would remark, "You are a liar, Sir, and a rather dirty one at that." In England you just say "Oh, is that so?" Or "That's rather an unusual story, isn't it?

Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States.