And the introduction by a French missionary of a system for transliterating Vietnamese into the roman alphabet played a great role in unifyingthecountry.
Four minutes later, Spain became the FIFA World Cup Champion for the first time, unifyingthecountry in a celebration of Rioja wine, cava, chorizo, and tapas.
And signalling his intention to fight on the Blairite centre ground he said that with the Lib Dems in coalition with the Tories he believed Labour can be a "great unifying force on all shades of centre left opinion in this country".