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		<title>Mass mysticism, moving with modern arms</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/09/mass-mysticism-moving-with-modern-arms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Hilaire du Berrier explains in Background to Betrayal, Vietnam had a number of factions vying for power, not just Communists and anti-Communists. The Cao Dai sect stands out as even more colorful than the Robin Hood-like Binh Xuyen bandits of the swamps: As for the Cao Dai, it was French General de la Tour who [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A Vietnamese Robin Hood</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/07/toward-the-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Japan&#8217;s defeat at the end of World War II, France tried to reassert its dominance over Vietnam, while Ho Chi Minh&#8216;s Communist forces fought for independence from the imperialist colonialists, but — as Hilaire du Berrier explains in Background to Betrayal — it wasn&#8217;t really that simple. There were many other factions. One of the more [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Vietnamese Alphabet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One reason I found Hilaire du Berrier&#8217;s Background to Betrayal dry and somewhat confusing is that it describes many ministers of government with strange names. Vietnamese names, written in the Vietnamese alphabet, are indeed quite strange to American English-speakers — but once you know the basics, it becomes much, much easier to &#8220;pronounce&#8221; Vietnamese in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Worth the Effort</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first started reading Hilaire du Berrier&#8217;s Background to Betrayal, which describes the situation in Vietnam leading up to the war, I found it dry and somewhat confusing, and I was even considering putting the book down — and then I came to this passage: If the reader&#8217;s head is swimming as he peruses [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>North Dakotan Monarchist</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hilaire du Berrier explains how a boy from North Dakota became a monarchist: When I was 9 years old I was given a book on Napoleon&#8217;s cavalry, and my mind was made up. One of the first things I did when I came to Paris was to join the French monarchist party. I think that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Hilaire du Berrier</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/07/hilaire-du-berrier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hilaire du Berrier — pioneer aviator, daredevil, adventurer, writer, monarchist and spy — does not sound like a real person — or a North Dakotan: He was born of fifth-generation Huguenot parents in 1906 at Flasher, N.D., in what was then and is now a tiny town on the prairie (pop. 300). A friend of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnam 2.0</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/07/vietnam-2-0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 01:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Afghanistan, Mencius Moldbug claims, is Vietnam 2.0: Persons interested in the 1.0 edition may consult one of the few informative English-language histories of that war, Background to Betrayal, by the incredible Hilaire du Berrier. Note that as the moderate, pragmatic, realistic left-wing option (Diem/Karzai) is revealed as a complete and utter disaster, the Overton Window [&#8230;]]]></description>
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