A short quotation from Evarist Saliba’s No, Honourable Minister on page 193.

“Unfortunately there was a case when my recommendation that an officer serving in Australia should be recalled to Malta, since he was involved in a shoplifting case, was not accepted by my minister. I cannot fathom the mentality of persons in authority who risk a clash with a foreign government, and permit Malta’s name to be sullied, to shield a ‘friend’.”

This was prior to the 1987 election.

Giov. DeMartino

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