After Japan's surrender in #WWII, Britain sent 26,000 troops to #Vietnam. Orders were simple: Help France regain its colony by stomping Vietnamese nationalists. #ThisDayInHistory soldiers wrote #ErnestBevin to ask why they were working with Japanese occupiers to crush Vietnamese.

Standing behind them are (left to right): Fleet Admiral #WilliamDLeahy, USN, Truman's Chief of Staff; British Foreign Minister #ErnestBevin; U.S. Secretary of State #JamesFByrnes; Soviet Foreign Minister #VyacheslavMolotov.’ Ca. July 1945.
#PotsdamConference #WW2

British statesman, trade union leader and Labour Party politician, Ernest Bevin wrote, "Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat." #ErnestBevin

Bible Readings for March 9, 2025 Let's read the Bible togeth er in the next year.  Today our passages are   Numbers 11:24–13:33; Mark 14:22-52; Psalm 52:1-9; and Proverbs ...

Let's read the Bible together in the next year. Today our passages are Numbers 11:24–13:33; Mark 14:22-52; Psalm 52:1-9; and Proverbs 11:1-3. #ErnestBevin #ContemporaryEnglishVersion #BibleReadings #BibleinaYear #Mark #Numbers #Psalms #Proverbs

Ernest Bevin

Amerigo Vespucci (1454), Alexis I of Russia (1629), Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau (1749), Leland Stanford (1824), #ErnestBevin (1881), Vyacheslav Molotov [Skryabin] (1890), Vita Sackville-West (1892), Samuel Barber (1910), Bobby Sands (1954) & Matteo Salvini (1973) were born #OnThisDay