"The feelings of solitude and profound nostalgia, the themes of incommunicability and the difficulty of relations between couples, are not limited to a single milieu," he said.
"But we should be absolutely clear that no difficulty in relations can ever excuse in any way or under any circumstances the failure to protect diplomatic staff and diplomatic premises," he said.
He was appointed first British resident at the court of Ava in 1827, at the conclusion of the first Anglo-Burmese War and at a time of great difficulty in relations with Burma (Myanmar).
But he too put the accent on ties with Bric countries and Latin America, noting the difficulties in relations with Europe.
Its strongest passages are the more prosaic ones, dealing with the Gaafar family's difficulties, the relations between the siblings and Saleha's disastrous marriage.
On Oct. 4, Pope John Paul II said the acceptance by many Anglicans of openly gay clergy members poses "new and serious difficulties" in relations.
Pope John Paul II told the archbishop of Canterbury on Saturday that the acceptance of openly gay clergy members by many Anglicans presented "new and serious difficulties" in relations between the two churches.
He also tried to relieve the peasantry's financial difficulties, eased relations with Bulgaria (1933), and engaged Yugoslavia in the Little Entente (with Czechoslovakia and Romania) and the Balkan Entente, an alliance with Greece, Turkey, and Romania (1934).
EADS is a paradigm for wider difficulties in relations, because of the mutual suspicion and because of Berlin's determination to assert its increased power in a venture in which the French previously had the upper hand.
The 51-year-old's time in charge has had its difficulties and relations with the president of the US Soccer Federation, Sunil Gulati, have been strained of late, not least over the governing body's apparent reluctance to appoint a Bierhoff-like figure as general manager.
