Chiang Kaishek and Winston Churchill in 1940: Churchill the Appeaser and Chiang the Artful?

Also, we ask what is it about Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech that makes it so good? And we mention probably the greatest oratory on race delivered since the “I have a dream” speech

And, seamlessly(!), we celebrate the birthday of probably the world's best clothing-related invention.

This episode was first broadcast on 28 August 2015 on Noreen Mir’s 1-2-3 Show, RTHK Radio 3. Click ‘Subscribe’ to receive future podcasts automatically (or see the This Month in History website). Each month, Paul Letters examines events from this month in history. Recorded at Radio Television Hong Kong Studios, Broadcast Drive, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Paul Letters is a historian, journalist, educator and novelist. See paulletters.com for more history, including a daily ‘On-This-Day-75-Years-Ago’ Twitter feed and photographs. Plus the novel that combines: the real history of the Allies’ first strike against Nazi Germany; Paul’s granny’s escape (as a teenager) from 1939 Poland to 1940 Paris to wartime London; the ‘Double-Cross System’, the Special Operations Executive and assassination in Prague (aChanceKill.com).

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