Today -100: April 19, 1922: Of trickery, assassinations, teapot domes, and No Fatties

At the Genoa Conference, the Allies send Germany a note complaining that it violated their “offer of good-will and fellowship” by signing the Treaty of Rapallo with Russia. They punish Germany by excluding it from negotiations with Russia. Which accomplishes exactly zero, since the whole point is that Germany and Russia have completed their negotiations. Signed a treaty and everything. German Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau rejects British claims that Germany acted sneakily, saying they informed Lloyd George’s people (LG wouldn’t meet with him) that if the Allies insisted on leaving Germany out of talks about Russia it would sign a separate treaty. LG denies this and calls the move “trickery.”

In Berlin, two Armenians assassinate Djemal Azmy Bey (also spelled Cemal Azmi), the former governor of the Ottoman Empire’s Trebizond Province, where he organized the Armenian Genocide, and his aide Baha Eddin Chakir. The Berlin police round up the usual (Armenian) suspects, but the assassins are not caught, and won’t be.

The Department of the Interior explains the oil leasing arrangements in Teapot Dome, Wyoming and Elk Hills, California.

Will Hays bans Fatty Arbuckle films, acquittal or no acquittal. So instead of stopping “immoral” movies, he sees his remit as extending to people. #CancelCulture1922

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