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Korea in 1392, as in 1965, was a nation violently divided. The Koryo dynasty was challenged by the House of Yi, and civil war was in the air. At this dangerous juncture Jong Mong-ju, a minister loyal to the old dynasty, paid a courtesy call on King Taejo, the father of Yi Bang-won, the leading strategist of the opposition. His host's son, in salutation, took up a harp and sang this sinister and seditious ditty...
...They insist 'to this day that Abraham Lincoln should have accepted their King Mong-kut's timely offer of elephants in 1862. Regretfully, Lincoln explained to the King that the U.S. climate did not "favor the multiplication of the elephant." It is possible, nonetheless, that if the Union had been able to field a pachydermous panzer division, the U.S. Civil War might have been foreshortened...
...Nationalist fold or else clear out of the embassy. Three eventually changed sides again, reaffirmed their allegiance to the Kuomintang. Six remained adamant. To deal with them, said Tuan, reinforcements would arrive this week from the still loyal missions in London, Brussels and The Hague. Said Counselor George Mong (the rebels' ringleader): "Tuan is one of my oldest and dearest friends. If, in the end, he tosses me out, there will be nothing personal...
...mong ec oil vifty rench," said Sedgwick in a crisp falsetto...
...hand for the occasion were Prague's Mayor Vaclav Macek and a "Monsieur Mong" representing the mayor of Chungking. But France's most important guest was Sidi Lamine, Bey of Tunis. He arrived wearing fez, black tunic and red gold-striped trousers. Across his chest shimmered the red sash of the Legion of Honor...