“... in Kim Il Sung’s newly independent North Korea, and in the same year, when Communist forces in Southern China were hunted by Chiang Kai-shek’s 46th and 64th Armies, Mao asked the Vietminh to let his beleaguered First Regiment cross into the nearby Vietminh-held enclave, to relative safety. Ho Chi Minh complied, giving the Chinese sanctuary, food and ...”

“... and the muddy glacial Arve, the civilisation of Northern Italy has met the ‘opposing current of southern semi-mediaevalism’, ‘and the clear course of the one has been contaminated by the turbid stream of the other’. In the US the most frequent figurative use of the song’s title was to do with the coming together of divergent religious ...”