Today -100: April 23, 1920: Of mandates, lynchings, and lawlessnesses

Canada offers to take the mandate over Armenia if Norway says no, as is expected. (Tomorrow it will deny having made such an offer).

Indianapolis police break up an attempted lynching of a black man being held for the murder of a white girl.

The French Senate convicts former prime minister Joseph Caillaux for “commerce and correspondence with the enemy” during the war, commerce here meaning association rather than economic trade. Basically, he talked with some shady dudes with questionable connections to German intelligence, and that’s about it. Charges of high treason and “intelligence with the enemy” are rejected. It was a purely political trial, held behind closed doors. Long-time readers of this blog will remember that his wife, who committed the very real crime of shooting dead the editor of Le Figaro, was acquitted in 1914.

Presidential candidate Gen. Leonard Woods’ enemies are spreading a rumor that he’s Catholic.

Judge George Anderson of the First Circuit Court issues writs of habeas corpus to 13 aliens who the government ordered deported for being lefties, calling their detention without warrants for two weeks “lawless.”

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