User talk:Waggg
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--- >you were French, nationalistic, making POV mods, and not reading the >edit history
nationalistic : not that much - that is, not up to accept to be blinded by nationalism. The changes I made seemed logical to me.
making POV mods : Saying that the French didn't surrender but signed an armistice (a kind of truce) and saying that Japan was not controlling Indochina by 1940, seemed OK to me... I didn't see it as Point of View but as a non-debatable truth.
not reading the edit history : I wasn't aware of all that. I usually just read Wikipedia, I don't know the details.
Armistice implies a truce ... If Hitler had refused to sign an armistice and continue the war (it is pretty obvious he would have won) then France could have surrendered - that's nothing to do with POV but with widely available definitions of words .... But well, whatever, I give up, I guess that's just a detail anyway knowing the situation of France in the end of June 1940. I still think "In 1940, Japan occupied French Indochina (Vietnam) upon agreement with the Vichy Government, despite local Free French, and joined Axis powers Germany and Italy" isn't really the truth but I perhaps not understand quite well what "occupy" means in English (a language I don't master). Whatever.
Have a nice day. Sorry for the trouble.
Hey, if you've discovered the history function & NPOV, I should be the one that says sorry and welcomes you to Wikipedia! In fact, the next time I'm in Paris, I'm stopping by Gilbert Jeune near Notre Damme again and buying some French language WWII histories. You've made me really curious. I personally think english language sources for info on the Battle of the Bulge and the V2 attacks on Antwerp are also pretty light on details. Jok2000 20:11, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
