However, the hosts hit back and hit back hard, first replacement hooker Andrew Hore sliding over, then Williams careering out of his own half and leaving several defenders for dead before flipping the ball to Nonu to finish off a scintillating move.

His smile slightened as if he knew they talked of him.

He leaned the mixture in an effort to cause a backfire through the carburetor, the generally accepted method of breaking the ice loose.

When the mainland of China fell, one of America's stanchest personal allies was driven, with what forces he had left, across the Formosa Straits to that island which is now the remaining remnant of Free China.