The census shows that Los Angeles’s population now surpasses San Francisco’s.
The Republican National Convention is having trouble agreeing on its planks on foreign relations, peace, and the League of Nations. Hiram Johnson in particular is fighting any move short of complete rejection of the League. That issue is pretty much his whole campaign now. Some are worried he’ll do a third-party run if he loses the nomination. Also, there will be no planks dealing with the soldier bonus or prohibition.
Yet another horse-race story insists that “Senator Harding was eliminated from the contest some time ago, according to the general view.”
Italy: Francesco Nitti’s government resigns (again), brought down by its decision to lift the cap on bread prices because the government subsidies were too expensive. Fighting this is an issue on which the Catholics and the Socialists can (finally) agree.
Another country with a squabbling coalition government, Germany, held parliamentary elections this week. The Social Democrats remain the largest party but lost a bunch of seats to the further-left Independent Social Democratic Party. Right-wing parties also picked up support. Ebert is trying to put together a workable coalition with parties to his right.
More anti-Semitic riots in Vienna.
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