Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Today -100: November 21, 1923: Of spies, hunger, and butterfly jazz


Lothar Witzke, the only German spy convicted in the US during the Great War, is released from prison and will be expelled from the country.

Hunger-striking prisoner Dennis Barry dies in Newbridge internment camp, the first hunger-strike death under the Irish Free State.

Giacomo Puccini wins a lawsuit against the Ricordi music publishers for a fox-trot containing an excerpt from Madame Butterfly. Puccini claimed his dignity had been affronted by the jazzing of his music.

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