Cardinal Achille Ratti, a compromise candidate, is elected pope. He will be called Pope Rat Pius XI. They were on a schedule and didn’t wait for cardinals from the Western Hemisphere to get to Rome before they voted. Pius XI (which is also the nickname of the current president of China) gives the benediction from the balcony, which popes stopped doing in a snit when Italy took over Vatican City in 1870.
So what do we know about him?
Um, okay.
Well, that seems unlikely.
Sure, why not.
And he’s supposedly written 330 books, and he likes hanging out with boy chimney sweeps.
Russia dissolves the Cheka. And creates in its place the GPU (State Political Directorate).
Gov. Lee Russell of Mississippi is sued by former stenographer in his office, Frances G. Birkhead, for $100,000 in damages for “seduction,” half for being persuaded to fuck him (“yielded to his will”), causing her to lose her job and her health, half for his getting her to have an abortion. Russell calls the suit “the most damnable blackmail conspiracy in the history of Mississippi.”
Indian Nationalists storm a police station in Bengal and kill 17 cops. Unfortunately, this coincides with Gandhi’s offer to postpone the start of civil disobedience if political prisoners are released and freedom of association and the press are restored.
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