jeux sans frontieres

[Hans Huttel <hans%lfcs.edinburgh.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK>]

In article <8905161708.AA08204@cauchy.mit.edu> jw@math.mit.edu writes
>
>About Games without Frontiers...
>
>Steve Tynor writes:
>
>> As long as we're on the subject, has anyone deciphered who all the people
>> mentioned in the song are? Adolf and Enrico are pretty obvious, but what
>> about Hans, Lotte, Jane, Willi, Suki, Leo, Britt, Andre, Chiang Ching, and
>> Lin Tai Yu? Are these real people or are they just metaphors for counties?
>
>I always thought they were meant to be real people, and that one day I'd
>get around to sorting them out. Now I doubt it. If this were a list of
>people prominent in the latest European civil war, and the contemporary
>turmoil in east Asia, we would surely recognize more of the names.
>The two Chinese names, one of whom has no hill to fly his flag on,
>are suggestive of the nationalist and communist Chinese. Leo could
>represent the (British) lion; but so, of course, could Britt!

Chiang Ching is one way of spelling the name of Mao Zedong's
wife/widow.

As for Hans...

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