Wanderthread Redux (Part 1)

Wanderfound · August 14, 2020, 10:50pm

MarjaE · August 14, 2020, 11:05pm

Wait, does this mean Sean Eads’s “Riviter”-- the story about Eva Braun-- might be a bit problematic? /s

Wanderfound · August 15, 2020, 2:50am

Wanderfound · August 15, 2020, 11:09am

Under the headline “British in Indo-China” appeared a copy of a letter that had also been sent to Ernest Bevin, the foreign secretary. “It appears that we are collaborating with Japanese and French forces against the nationalist forces of Viêt Minh,” the letter read. “For what purpose is this collaboration? Why are we not disarming the Japanese? We desire the definition of government policy regarding the presence of British troops in Indo-China.” The letter was signed by the “British other ranks” of the signal section of an infantry brigade based in Saigon.

It was highly unusual – notwithstanding the egalitarian spirit of those postwar days – to see a group of low-ranking British troops so publicly demanding that the foreign secretary explain his government’s policies. But what was truly extraordinary was the disclosure that British troops were fighting in the former French colony against the local population, and that they were doing so alongside their former enemies: the Japanese army and the Vichy French.

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Wanderfound · August 16, 2020, 3:57am

Wanderfound · August 16, 2020, 4:04am

Dems attacking Trump for being too “soft” on Snowden:

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Wanderfound · August 16, 2020, 9:32pm

Thread.

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Wanderfound · August 17, 2020, 4:16am

An interesting alternative to shelters for domestic abuse victims:

Wanderfound · August 17, 2020, 10:02am