You are a fluent reader - you read what you know I intended to write. I am a proof-reader/editor - unable to see my own typos or structural inaccuracies until I post - then they leap out at my critical eye! Thanks for the tip...I'll look harder next time. JSK
Excellent little piece/exposé on Woodrow Wilson - the hero of the Versailles Peace Treaties - as I learnt from studies in the early/mid 1960s. I book by Susie CHOW (Head of Japanese at Macquarie U - deceased) about her grand-father - a Japanese diplomat to the US pre-The Great War - then post-war the Ambassador - makes most clear his anti-Chinese, anti-Japanese sentiment. And also exposes his behind the scenes urging/encouragement of the Peace Treaties presence of William Morris Hughes from Australia and his virulent up-front racist sentiment defeating the clauses Japan - as an ally - wished included. "The Turning Point in US-Japan Relations: Hanihara's Cherry Blossom Diplomacy in 1920-1930" Misuzu Hanihara Chow & Kiyofuku Chuma - Palgrave Macmillan 2016. More good writing/endorsement from Wolf re Citizens' Juries! Appreciating your quirky inclusions - The Rat which loved Spaghetti! Interesting background to the Gay resignation - though her apology for being critical of Zionist Israel was not a courageous moment. Teilhard de Chardin - excellent dismissal - makes me think of Paul Coelho one of whose books I tried to read years ago - a similar sense of mystical nonsense - turgid with the grand pronouncements but totally unconvincing.
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You are a fluent reader - you read what you know I intended to write. I am a proof-reader/editor - unable to see my own typos or structural inaccuracies until I post - then they leap out at my critical eye! Thanks for the tip...I'll look harder next time. JSK
Excellent little piece/exposé on Woodrow Wilson - the hero of the Versailles Peace Treaties - as I learnt from studies in the early/mid 1960s. I book by Susie CHOW (Head of Japanese at Macquarie U - deceased) about her grand-father - a Japanese diplomat to the US pre-The Great War - then post-war the Ambassador - makes most clear his anti-Chinese, anti-Japanese sentiment. And also exposes his behind the scenes urging/encouragement of the Peace Treaties presence of William Morris Hughes from Australia and his virulent up-front racist sentiment defeating the clauses Japan - as an ally - wished included. "The Turning Point in US-Japan Relations: Hanihara's Cherry Blossom Diplomacy in 1920-1930" Misuzu Hanihara Chow & Kiyofuku Chuma - Palgrave Macmillan 2016. More good writing/endorsement from Wolf re Citizens' Juries! Appreciating your quirky inclusions - The Rat which loved Spaghetti! Interesting background to the Gay resignation - though her apology for being critical of Zionist Israel was not a courageous moment. Teilhard de Chardin - excellent dismissal - makes me think of Paul Coelho one of whose books I tried to read years ago - a similar sense of mystical nonsense - turgid with the grand pronouncements but totally unconvincing.
"A book I read - by Susie Chow ..." (where is your key to edit my errors, Nicholas?
Hi Jim,
I can't see anything you need to edit. But usually you can edit things you've posted — at least for a while. Look around for buttons to press ;)