Today -100: February 27, 1920: Washington called us off

Woodrow Wilson’s letter to the British and French prime ministers repeats his threat to withdraw the peace treaty with Germany and the defensive treaty with France from Senate consideration if they try to impose an Adriatic settlement on Yugoslavia, especially if they invoke the secret 1915 treaty with Italy. He will give up his idea of a free Fiume, but only if Italy and Yugoslavia agree. He opposes compensating either country with territory from Albania. The whole correspondence with the Europeans is released, which the US had been pushing for.

Maj. A.V. Dalrymple, Supervisor of Prohibition Enforcement for the Central Division, retreats from Iron County, Michigan, with only a few smashed wine barrels and no prisoners to his credit. “Washington called us off,” Dalrymple says. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer issues a warning to dry agents, in general terms but obviously aimed at Dalrymple, not to arrest anyone or seize evidence without warrants.

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