Sunday, April 26, 2020

Today -100: April 26, 1920: In a smiling peace lies our only hope of salvation


The San Remo Conference gives the mandate over Mesopotamia and Palestine (which will be known as the “National Home for the Jews”) to Britain and gives Syria (which includes Lebanon) to France, and will offer Armenia to the US or at least get Wilson to arbitrate Armenia’s borders.

Italian Prime Minister Francesco Nitti says “The trouble with the world today is it has forgotten how to smile.”

Now the Irish political prisoners held in the English prison Wormwood Scrubs also go on hunger strike.

The duel between Uruguayan Pres. Baltasar Brum and El Pais director Rodriguez Loretta is called off. Loretta would only do it in a foreign country, presumably one where dueling is legal?


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