The “rum rebellion” (wine, but the press is going with the alliteration; there are also lots of references to the Whisky Rebellion) in Iron County, Michigan subsides in the face of the threat of military action. Many in the county are moving their booze to hiding places in the hills, though some are simply pouring out barrels of wine. “Me no drink, me no fight the United States,” one veteran of the 32nd Division and Italian stereotype says.
Britain will end conscription at the end of the month, retaining a 220,000-strong volunteer army (not counting the army in India). War Secretary Winston Churchill notes that Britain tried to get other nations to agree to end conscription generally, but with no takers, including the US.
France will retain an army of 1 million, which they figure they need in part because they can’t depend on the US.
The German Workers’ Party changes its name. It is now the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei aka the NSDAP aka the Nazi Party.
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