Harding says the only “commendable” plan to pay for bonuses for Great War veterans (he’s rejected bonds backed by Allies’ debt, among other things) is a general sales tax, which he knows is a non-starter. Harding, to the extent that he favors doing anything for vets, likes the idea of giving them farms. Or we could just postpone the whole thing, he suggests.
British Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill asks Parliament to pass the Irish Treaty quickly, to set up in Ireland “a fresh, a normal, and a sensible Parliament” to “represent the hope of the future rather than the hate of the past.” And if the Irish people still prefer a republic, well, “We don’t recognize the Irish republic and never will.” He says that now it’s Ireland and not Britain that is “on trial before the nations of the world.” He sounds rather smug about that, or perhaps the smugness is because a massacre committed by British forces in India last month didn’t even make the papers. Britain should pretty much always be on trial before the nations of the world.
The Kentucky State Senate kills, barely, the bill against the teaching of evolution (or any theory that “would weaken or undermine the faith of pupils”).
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In other news, the 1920s have invented “petting.”
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