That was the same slogan that Vice President Dan Quayle famously misrecalled in 1989 when he said, “What a waste it is to lose one’s mind.”

From Macao he had visited Japan in 1889, 1894 and in 1895 as a Portuguese officer, before he was appointed Portuguese viceconsul and consul in Japan (Kobe) in 1899, a position which he held up to 1913, when he resigned not without a dramatic effect.

[> The bigotry I get more upset about is that which comes from the en masse ignorance of the American people about the rest of the world] As opposed to the average EUian's ignorance about the US? Or the average Chinese's ignorance about the EU or the US?

After half an hour of unsneezing silence, I managed to stutter […]