Michael Collins fights off an assassination attempt by a dozen men in Parnell Square, Dublin, personally capturing one. What a guy.
During the first week of the Genoa Conference, it became clear to the Germans that they wouldn’t be getting any concessions, so they signed a treaty with Russia (the Treaty of Rapallo, well, a Treaty of Rapallo, since there was another one of those in 1920) which they’ve supposedly been negotiating for months, reestablishing diplomatic relations, canceling all indemnity claims from the war as well as pre-war debts and compensation for nationalization of Germany properties in Russia. Which is the deal Russia wants from the conference, and isn’t getting. Lloyd George sends Germany a letter expressing “pained surprise,” while the French are “naturally furious.” Naturally.
The Belgian Socialist Party votes against women’s suffrage for provincial elections, out of fear that the Catholic Party would gain women’s votes. Women will get the vote at the provincial and national level in 1948.
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