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7,500 SKY TROOPS TO LAND IN JAPAN WITH M’ARTHUR; SHIP, PLANE RULES IN FORCE (8/24/45)
Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 8/24/45 | Sydney Gruson

Posted on 08/24/2015 4:26:18 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson

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“On August 24, under the pressure of the revolutionary masses, the emperor Bao Dai was forced to renounce the throne.”

http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/August+Revolution+of+1945+in+Vietnam

Warning! The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated [might?] or ideologically biased. [ya think?]

August Revolution of 1945 in Vietnam

“A national people’s democratic revolution that overthrew the hegemony of the imperialists in Vietnam and established a popular democratic rule.”

The August revolution resulted from the development of a national liberation movement in Vietnam against the French colonialists who had subjugated the country in the 1850’s through the 1880’s and against the Japanese invaders who had occupied it in 1940.

On May 19, 1941, in accordance with the resolution of the eighth plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Indochina (the GPI; from 1951, the Workers’ Party of Vietnam, WPV), a united national liberation front was created, the Vietminh (the League for the Independence of Vietnam), which rallied all the patriotic forces of the country. Through the Vietminh, the CPI conducted extensive propaganda in 1941–44 and began creating bases and armed detachments. On Dec. 22, 1944, the first detachments of the Vietnamese Liberation Army (now called the People’s Army of Vietnam) began to form in Cao Bang Province.

After the coup of Mar. 9, 1945, in which the Japanese imperialists liquidated the French administration, the Vietminh mounted a broad guerrilla war against the Japanese invaders. In April 1945 a Vietminh military-revolutionary conference was held which prepared a plan for the general uprising. On June 4 a liberated area whose center was in the village of Tan Trao in Tuyen Quang Province was formed on the territory of Northern Vietnamese provinces. The CPI held a national conference on Aug. 13–15, 1945, and adopted a resolution on the initiation of a general uprising in Vietnam, the goal of which would be complete independence and the establishment of a popular-based rule. A committee of insurrection was created to lead the uprising. On August 16 a Vietnamese national congress of the Vietminh was held in Tan Trao; it approved the decision on the commencement of a general uprising, chose the National Committee for the Liberation of Vietnam, headed by Ho Chi Minh, and charged this committee with the functions of a provisional government. In response to the summons of the CPI, the people rose up in insurrection throughout the country during August 16–26. On August 19 armed masses seized Hanoi; on August 20 the People’s Revolutionary Committee of North Vietnam was created in the capital. Everywhere the rebellious people took power into their own hands. On August 24, under the pressure of the revolutionary masses, the emperor Bao Dai was forced to renounce the throne. On Sept. 2, 1945, at a meeting of 500,000 people on Ba Dinh Square in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, in the name of the provisional government, solemnly proclaimed Vietnam’s declaration of independence and the formation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV).

The August revolution came about under the hegemony of the working class allied with the peasantry, the national bourgeoisie, and other patriotic forces rallying under the leadership of the CPI in the unified national liberation front, the Vietminh. It took place amid the destruction of German fascism in Europe by the Soviet Union and the victorious war of the Soviet Union against Japan, which made it easier for the Vietnamese people to achieve victory in their struggle against the French colonialists and Japanese aggressors. The August revolution cleared the way for broad social and economic transformations in Vietnam and greatly influenced the development of the national liberation movement in Southeast Asia, first and foremost in Laos and Cambodia.

REFERENCES
Razob’em okovy: Dokumenty Avgustovskoi revoliutsii 1945 g. vo V’etname. Moscow, 1960. (Translated from French.)
Ho Chi Minh. Izbr. stat’i i rechi. Moscow, 1959. (Translated from Vietnamese and French.)
Tridtsat’ let bor’by partii i rabochego klassa V‘etnama. Hanoi 1961.
III s”ezd Partii trudiashchikhsia V’etnama. Moscow, 1961. Pages 11–13. (Translated from Vietnamese.)

V. A. ZELENTSOV
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979).


41 posted on 08/24/2015 9:49:58 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=12371

August 24, 1945

CITATION FOR THE LEGION OF MERIT

DEGREE OF CHIEF COMMANDER

GENERAL CHARLES DE GAULLE, President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic and Commander-in-Chief of France’s armed forces, performed distinguished services by maintaining his nation’s effort in the struggle against the common enemy in Europe. From the chaos which followed the unleashing of the aggressor states’ military power he emerged to keep bright the flame of liberty among his countrymen, to rally them in the cause of freedom, to merge their revived strength with the growing might of the United Nations. In victory he returned to his native soil, there to rebuild on firm principles a nation rededicated to liberty, equality and fraternity.

HARRY S. TRUMAN


http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=12373

CITATION FOR THE LEGION OF

MERIT DEGREE OF COMMANDER

GEORGES BIDAULT, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government of the French Republic, was called to the colors in the autumn of 1939 and devotedly served his country as a sergeant of infantry until the spring of 1940 when he was taken prisoner by the Germans. In July 1941, after more than a year of captivity, he regained his freedom, whereupon without regard for his own safety or well-being he immediately became extremely active in French underground affairs. Displaying at all times zealous determination to drive the invader from France, he played a major part in organizing the French Resistance Movement for effective cooperation with the Allied armies, and became President of the National Council of Resistance, which post he occupied on the Day of Liberation. Continuing as Minister of Foreign Affairs to cooperate with the United Nations in the pursuit of their ideals, M. Bidault fostered a spirit of friendship and harmony between his republic and that of the United States.

HARRY S. TRUMAN


42 posted on 08/24/2015 9:54:16 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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24 August 1945 – “Low-Cost Television – Designed for Your Home!”

http://www.c3iopscenter.com/currentops/2015/08/24/24-august-1945-low-cost-television-designed-for-your-home-2/


43 posted on 08/24/2015 9:59:11 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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[Letter from Corporal Park B. Fielder to his family, August 24, 1945]

http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth348964/m1/1/

Fielder, Park B. [Letter from Corporal Park B. Fielder to his family, August 24, 1945], Letter, August 24, 1945; (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth348964/ : accessed August 25, 2015), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Arlington Historical Society's Fielder House Museum, Arlington, Texas.

44 posted on 08/24/2015 10:01:45 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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A marvelous collection of more than one hundred photos from throughout the war in the Pacific:

http://www.eugeneleeslover.com/The_Pacific.html


45 posted on 08/24/2015 10:05:07 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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