Russia abandons Brest-Litovsk.
Former SC Gov. Coleman Blease shows up at the Conference of Governors and speaks out against the use of the third degree by police, which he says is a violation of the Constitution and a blow to the whole spirit of our institutions. Unlike lynchings, which of course he totally supports: “when mobs are no longer possible, liberty will be dead.”
The US is now pushing Germany for a response to its last Lusitania letter about submarine warfare. That letter actually said that it didn’t require a written response, just not torpedoing quite so many Americans in the future, but now, with the Arabic sinking, the US demands an explicit response. Germany is evidently telling the US privately that it already sent orders to modify submarine warfare and refrain from attacking passenger ships (which the U-boat that sunk the Arabic ignored), but that it won’t say so publicly because the German people are really committed to sub warfare, in part because the government is exaggerating how successful it is and how vital to the war effort.
France announces the end of martial law outside of actual war zones.
The New York Constitutional Convention reverses itself and drops the literacy requirement.
Headline of the Day -100:
The British and German ambassadors to the US both turn up at the Shoreham Hotel restaurant for separate lunches. They do not make eye contact.
German occupation forces appoint a city council for Warsaw, 12 Poles, 12 Germans, and 6 Jews.
A W.J.L. writes a letter to the NYT saying that he’d offered a German street band a dime to play the Marseillaise but “They are not out for cash, it seems.”
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