re: #597 Slap

I think people don’t realize that Uncle Ho actually tried to plead his case for Vietnam’s freedom at the Versailles conference. A pity Wilson got no traction on his “end colonialism” idea, but I guess too many nations needed to keep their source of bodies for their armies.

This is one of many reasons I find that WW1 and its aftermath are the defining event of the last century, bar none. So many problems humanity has faced since then are inextricably tied to those events. Its significance, IMO, is neglected at our peril.

I read David Lloyd George’s Great Granddaughter’s book, Paris 1919 about the conference. That was fascinating. And yeah Wilson for all his problems was ahead of his time in being critical of the colonialism but unfortunately Lloyd George and Clemenceau didn’t want to hear any of it.