PORT MORESBY, PNG, NAKED DAYS

V.L. Newberry (third from left) and C.W. Marshall (second from right), Fly River.

Port Moresby, 1962.

I was at Port Moresby for overnight. We took local flight to Madang the next morning where we had the coconut network meeting, 1999.

Re: All the above pictures are from a book published by the Australian survey team of Papua New Guinea.

STATE OF THE WORLD

MUSLIM SS DIVISION OF HITLER

Sauberzweig, commander of the Muslim SS Handschar Division.

 

The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem inspecting guard of honour of the Muslim SS.

THE FOREBODING WAR

WW11 has been dubbed as a war to end all wars. The saying is a farce because during peace men prepare for war. 

The arms race is ongoing. The weapons made are more devastating. Warmongering becomes a business. 

There are belligerent states for might is right. 

Economic demands and territories are unsatiable. Resources become scarce. Ideology, religion become the pretext for war. 

The UN, the broker of peace is but a dud to legitimise war. 

War then becomes a neccessary evil for those who are bent on war.

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR FROM GUILIN

n.b. The trip to Guilin was almost a year ago.

THE MAN WHO DEFEATED FRANCE

'Our Great Viet is a country where prosperity abounds, where a civilization reigns supreme' - words of 15th century Vietnamese war hero. Unhappily, Vietnam's subsequent history has been turbulent - a sad story of unrest and foreign interference.
1 Page 1651 dictionary in parallel Latin and Vietnamese. European missionaries arrived in the 17th century persecuted by the Emperors, Europe retaliated.
2 Franco-Spanish force seizes Saigon, 1859. By the 1880's all Vietnam was under French control.
3 French fortress, Da Nang, 1845 (the first recorded photograph of Vietnam).
4 French soldiers dressed for service in Vietnam, 1880's.
5 A French railway track in Cochinchina, 1880's.

The Battle of Dien Bien Phu, 13th March 1953- 7th May 1954.

Ho Chi Minh proved his war mettle to kick out imperialistic west not once but twice, first the French (1954) and then the Americans. 

HOUSE IN THE WOODS

It was during an introductory course on landscape architecture way back in 1975  when I first came to know Lloyd Wright's name. The elderly professor who gave the course was sprightly with rumpled white hair. He was often seen cycling on campus especially around his department. Some 20 years later while in Florida I visited Florida Southern College and Lloyd Wright left his mark on the architecture of the main buildings.