Sorry I missed yesterday, dear reader (I have done it now, so scroll backwards to read it) but as the new term looms I had to pop in to see Mr Gove to put him straight on a few matters. And don't worry - he won't be bothering any of us again.
Now, to more important matters ...
Ho Chi Minh (he of the city and the trail) made a nuisance of himself in Hanoi today in 1945 by proclaiming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. As Commie as apple pie, he upset the Japanese, the French, the British and finally the Americans, leading to the deaths of thousands.
Why can't people realize that foreign powers lording it over them know best? (See Owain Glyndwr, William Wallace, Toussaint L'Overture, the Founding Fathers, Geronimo, Jomo Kenyatta etc etc etc).
In other news ...
Louis Napoleon surrendered to Kaiser Wilhelm of Prussia today in 1870 after being thoroughly trounced in the Franco-Prussian War which would see the new state of Germany emerge the following year. Masters of efficient and organized warfare, the Prussians had 26 railway lines to transport their troops to the killing fields. The French had one.
Go, as both the French and the Germans say today, figure.
