Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Today -100: May 19, 1920: Of senates and coups


The British Parliament discusses Irish Home Rule. The idea now is for the two Irish parliaments to also have senates. Sir Edward Carson would prefer Northern Ireland have no parliament at all but instead continue to be ruled from Westminster. Which would also allow Britain to use Ulster as a “jumping-off place” in case it needs to go to war with “Sinn Féin Ireland.” Carson also suggests that the US butt out.

The London Daily Telegraph is pretty sure that Lenin et al have been displaced by Gen. Aleksei Brusilov after a military coup.


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