The very idea evokes images form old newsreels, with grave statesmen in top hast emerging from limousines to urge calm in gravelly voices.

• 谈到这件事就令人想到往昔的新闻影片，政府大员头戴高顶礼帽，表情沉重，从礼宾车里出来，声音沙哑而低沉地促请民众冷静。