In today's Remembrance Day assembly we focused on the contribution of the Chinese to World War I and, in particular, on this man, 陸征祥, Lou Tseng-Tsiang, who was the only man to refuse to sign the Treaty of Versailles. As leader of the Chinese delegation he took the courageous step of refusing to accept the loss of Shandong province. To learn more click here or here.
The truly remarkable thing about Lou was that he went from being Prime Minister of China to becoming a Catholic priest and monk in Belgium, where he suffered under the Nazis during World War II. The pictures above, in other words, are of the same man. His story may have been unique but he can help remind us of all those many non-combatants whose lives, deaths and work are sometimes forgotten when we recall past conflicts.
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