Word: martinet
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...your contents page you refer to Graf as "A Female Captain Bligh." Shame on you for perpetuating a myth. Bligh was one of the Royal Navy's most humane captains, certainly no martinet. You should pay more attention to history and less to Hollywood. Mike Witt, PETTS WOOD, ENGLAND...
Still, let's not praise Merkel the martinet too much. She has not acted out of pure selflessness. As the richest nation in Euroland, Germany would have had to pay the largest share of the bailout. And if the euro careens out of control, Germany would end up as the biggest loser. With the euro derailed, the new deutsche mark would be everybody's darling, driving its value up - not a cheery prospect for the world's second biggest exporter. (See video: "Globabl Business Trips: Germany...