Headline of the Day -100:
The Bolshevik revolution is “approaching collapse,” reports the NYT. Troops loyal to Kerensky are approaching Petrograd.
Supposedly, new self-appointed Russian foreign minister Leon Trotsky shows up at the Foreign Office and is met with obstruction – not being shown the secret treaties, being told there was no French interpreter available for him to send a telegram, etc – and “the typewriter girls of the Ministry assailed him with some wholesome truths about his origin, his aims, and his activities generally.” Assuming this has any basis in reality, “his origin” almost certainly means his Jewishness.
Queen Liliuokalani, Hawaii’s last monarch, deposed by a US-backed coup in 1893, dies.
The Bureau of Mines plans to thwart bomb plots by arresting anyone in possession of explosives without a license.
There is some debate over whether white soldiers in the US Army can refuse to salute black officers.
The 41 suffragists currently out on bail, and 50 of their closest friends, force their way into the yard of the prison where Alice Paul and Rose Winslow are being forcibly fed, and are able to talk with Paul and get some instruction about how to deal with prison when they’re sentenced. Demand political prisoner status immediately, she says. She complains that they’re force-feeding her 3 times a day where the British prison authorities only did it twice a day.
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