Friday, November 17, 2023

Today -100: November 17, 1923: Of the spirit that is necessary for cooperation and entente, acquittals, and royal furniture


Britain won’t agree to any further sanctions on Germany, especially France’s plan to seize ports. And it won’t agree to an ultimatum to Germany to expel or surrender former crown prince Friedrich Wilhelm, a demand Britain points out is not covered by the Treaty of Versailles. Yesterday PM Stanley Baldwin suggested in Parliament that France is being so bitchy that Britain “could not continue indefinitely to maintain the spirit that is necessary for cooperation and entente.” French PM Raymond Poincaré responds that France has not been stubborn and intransigent. France has sooooooo been stubborn and intransigent.

Mussolini also opposes expanding the occupation.

The two men who assassinated Vatslav Vorovsky, the Soviet delegate to the Lausanne Conference, last May, are acquitted by a Swiss jury after a trial that largely focused on the evils of the Bolshevik government. The Soviet Union will start a boycott of Switzerland.

Former kaiser Wilhelm says he had no idea former crown prince Friedrich Wilhelm was going to Germany. Indeed, he goes to court to get back some of the family furniture the crown prince was sending to his estate in Silesia.

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