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Old 24-06-2008, 06:27 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Post Japan navy plans first visit to China since WW2 - Reuters


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Japan navy plans first visit to China since WW2
Reuters - Jun 16, 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese warship is set to arrive in China next week in the first such visit since World War Two, Japan's Defence Minister Shigeru ...


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Old 24-06-2008, 07:24 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Now that is news.

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My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html

"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."

(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)

What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site:
http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm
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Old 13-07-2008, 10:12 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Thread repeat methinks.
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