you think anthony eden, had.uages, was fluent in arabic fine . arabic and persian, fine. churchill rudimentary churchill spoke rudimentary french, but still managed to make understood . it make himself understood. and it was requirement foreign was a requirement of the foreign office relatively recently office until relatively recently that speak perfect that you had to speak perfect french plus french and german, plus a classical language plus an eastern what went eastern language. so what went wrong? what went wrong was on the hand, the closing the the one hand, the closing of the foreign office language school in east. yes. so in the middle east. yes. so basically, that knowledge basically, all of that knowledge of arabic persian went and of arabic and persian went and it's now it's very difficult now to find people the foreign who people in the foreign office who have grasp of arabic, have a good grasp of arabic, persian, , mind persian, mandarin, never mind more languages like more tricky languages like kyrg