A Matter of Principle
Sir Hamish Graham was bought up in the 1950s. He is an uncompromising scot who is honest and talented and hardworking but also extremely narrow minded and unadaptable and pompous. In the 1970s his Construction Company is not doing too well- when he is given a Mexican Contract.
He refuses to believe that an agent, called Victor Perez, is required to be appointed to whom 10% of the contract price must be paid and that this percentage is actually the Minister's cut. He visits the Minister and insists on knowing the full details and simply refuses to believe any version of the Minister, who tells him that Victor's father once, at great personal risk, saved an injured soldier, which was why the Government gives him the privileges of getting money from tenders. Later, when Graham does not understand, the Minister realizes that Sir Hamish is not a man who can do business the Mexican way and sends him out. In a twist ending, he is shown to be limping, revealing that he was the injured soldier.
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