Kofi Annan wrote to the members of the UN and asked if they would please give him their honest opinion of the solutions to food shortages in the rest of the world.
He didn't get any replies.
The Latin Americans didn't understand the word 'please',
the eastern Europeans didn't understand honest and the Chinese couldn't understand opinion.
In the Middle East they didn't understand solution and the Western Europeans didn't understand shortages.
The North Koreans didn't know what food was and the Americans didn't know who the rest of the world was.
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