Today in Peace and Justice history on September 2, 1945

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Revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam a republic and independent from France (National Day). Half a million people gathered in Hanoi to hear him read the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, which was modeled on the U.S. Declaration of Independence. . . . continued > http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/thisweek.htm

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1. We had a chance to actually promote democracy in Vietnam back then, and some at OSS recognized it.

But, they ran into the heavy hand and meat cutter Colonial approach favored by Dulles, the British Foreign Office and in Paris - the OSS types got blacklisted and the Cold War was on. Another opportunity lost or delayed by the ruling RW troglodytes at a terrible cost.