Wilhelm Marx of the Zentrum Party, the Catholic party, will form a minority government of the same 3 parties in Stresemann’s cabinet, indeed with most of the same people in the same roles. Stresemann will be foreign minister. None of those 3 parties is the Social Democratic Party, on whose tolerance in the Reichstag Marx will nonetheless depend. Marx is the 4th person in a row Pres. Ebert asked to try to form a government, the other option being a new election, which would be... troublesome given the French occupation of part of the country and the rise of Nazis and other far-right groups.
Assistant Navy Secretary Teddy Roosevelt Jr. rejects an offer of support from the Ku Klux Klan for his run for governor of NY. “Americanism never goes masked,” he says.
Kluxers show up at the dedication of a monument to local Great War dead in Cedarhurst, Long Island and get into a fight with American Legionnaires determined to prevent them laying a wreath with the letters K.K.K.
Talking with the chief rabbi of Rome, PM Mussolini denies that the Fascist government has even considered an anti-Semitic policy. He regrets that foreign anti-Semitic parties seek to exploit “the charm which Fascism exercises throughout the world.”
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