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#3 – 10 Things you (probably) didn’t know about China at the Treaty of Versailles

Posted: May 14th, 2014 | No Comments »

#3 – The Chinese Delegation kept the hotel bar open late every night singing….

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So many of the Chinese delegation to Versailles were graduates of American universities that at night the Hotel Lutetia’s bar swelled with informal alumni meetings and rousing renditionsof Columbia University songs among old boys of both Chinese and American descent.

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