Congress declared peace last week, but “nobody in authority in Washington seems to know whether we are actually at peace or not.” The resolution may have been enough by itself, or there may need to be some sort of proclamation, especially if the US is to retain the “rights” it acquired by the term of the armistice. It’s also unclear if laws passed for the duration of the war are still in effect. “Meanwhile the country may be engaged in a state of war with Germany without anybody knowing how to end it.” Treaties with Germany and Austria would definitely do it, but Harding shows no sign of making a move in that direction.
France withdraws its delegation from the Leipzig war crimes court, calling it a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham. This also means French complaining witnesses won’t appear.
Former kaiser Wilhelm refuses to pay taxes in the Netherlands, claiming he didn’t come to the country willingly and is being held as a virtual prisoner, so he doesn’t have to pay taxes.
The Tuskegee Institute reports that there were 36 lynchings in the United States in the first six months of 1921, up from 12 in the same period in 1920. 2 of the lynchees were white, 34 black. Mississippi and Georgia had the most lynchings.
Éamon de Valera finally responds to Lloyd George’s invitation to London, asking “on what basis such a conference as that proposed can reasonably hope to achieve the object desired, huh, huh?” I may have added the huhs. Lloyd George agrees to a suspension of hostilities in Ireland from Monday.
More proof that life in the 1920s was EXACTLY as it was portrayed in silent films:
Congress moves quickly to enact the dying wish of Rep. Edward Taylor of Colorado to rename the Grand River the Colorado River. A rather uninteresting dying wish, if you ask me, but then Taylor won’t actually die until 1941.
Jack Dempsey says he won’t box Jack Johnson (just out of prison) or any other negro.
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