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Nicolson indicates that to be a negotiator certain virtues are required that cannot be found in ordinary politicians and ordinary man. Nicilson quotes Callieres’ propositions that virtues are those to be possessed or to be acquired by a negotiator. The qualities of an ideal diplomat according to Calllieres are: truth, accuracy, calm, patience, good temper, modesty, and loyalty. However these qualities are probably the best ones Niocolson criticizes each of them and gives positive and negative sides of those qualities. Truthfulness, as the first quality, means that a diplomat should avoid “the suggestion of the false or the suppression of the true” (p. 58). He should not leave any incorrect impressions. Even if he does leave incorrect impressions and finds out that they were not correct he should correct them and also correct all inaccurate information because truthfulness increases “ present credit and fortifies future confidence” (p. 59). No situations, no occasion, no provocation, no anxiety can justify falsehood. Falsehood wounds the honor of his own country. It is identical with the fact from the second chapter that some states were in the league and “undertook never to destroy the city of any fellow-member a