Chinese Burn
A British Labour MP was succinctly squashed in the early 1930s by a Chinese delegate to the League of Nations, C. T. Wang, at a banquet in Nanjing. The two men found themselves sitting close to one another and the MP, not knowing what to say, opened up with: 'Likee soupee?' Mr. Wang did not dignify this remark with a reply, and at the end of the dinner made an address to the gathering in impeccable, erudite, elegant English. He then turned to the MP and asked politely: ''Likee speechee?'
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A British Labour MP was succinctly squashed in the early 1930s by a Chinese delegate to the League of Nations, C. T. Wang, at a banquet in Nanjing. The two men found themselves sitting close to one another and the MP, not knowing what to say, opened up with: 'Likee soupee?' Mr. Wang did not dignify this remark with a reply, and at the end of the dinner made an address to the gathering in impeccable, erudite, elegant English. He then turned to the MP and asked politely: ''Likee speechee?'