Today -100: November 10, 1924: Of fascisti, lodges, and building funds

British Fascisti (the not very successful group which was the first in Britain to use the name Fascist) occupy Trafalgar Square on Armistice Sunday to pre-empt Communists using the site (did they actually plan to or was this just a pretext? Dunno). BF President Brig. Gen. R. B. D. Blakeney makes a speech calling for the exclusion of aliens and a law against sedition.

Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge (R-Massachusetts) dies. Prostate.

At the annual meeting of negro Methodists at Huntington, Long Island, a group of Ku Klux Klan appear, without masks. They give $200 to the building fund and one of them makes a speech saying the Klan is not against black people, just against race-mixing. It stands for racial purity not racial oppression. So that’s okay then.

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