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malaise

(269,286 posts)
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 01:48 PM Jun 2020

Until the entire philosophy of white supremacy is destroyed

this too will be temporary. The Japanese were correct and so was Selassie - it is about international morality. No race is superior to another race.


https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/08/11/742293305/a-century-later-the-treaty-of-versailles-and-its-rejection-of-racial-equality#:~:text=A%20century%20ago%2C%20a%20new,fragile%20peace%20replaced%20global%20bloodshed.&text=Japan%20asked%20for%2C%20and%20nearly,all%20nations%2C%20regardless%20of%20race.
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A century ago, a new world order began.

The Treaty of Versailles concluded the war to end all wars. Constructed through diplomacy, a fragile peace replaced global bloodshed.

The treaty's proclamations are now iconic: that nations should have the right to self-determine, that a war's victors should negotiate how to move forward, that the defeated powers should be held responsible for the damage.

Yet the treaty, negotiated by the key players in World War I — notably France, Great Britain, Italy and the United States — was deeply flawed and could not fend off the rise of fascism, the Nazi party and, eventually, World War II.

Versailles' mixed legacy is even further complicated by a little-known attempt by Japan, one of the emerging players at the table, to move the world forward on the issue of racial equality.

Japan asked for, and nearly got approved, a clause in the treaty that would have affirmed the equality of all nations, regardless of race.

For all of the history forged, some historians believe the great powers missed a pivotal opportunity to fashion a much different 20th century.

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Bob immortalized this in song - WAR
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