Today -100: April 20, 1922: Of navies, ethnic cleansings, and windles

The House of Representatives supports Harding’s demand for a 86,000-man Navy and a pay raise for the Navy. The bill also limits the money spent on the teaching of swordsmanship at Annapolis.

Mussolini says there’s something crooked about the Rapallo Treaty and the Russians are up to no good and something something Adriatic and Fascist squads should be ready for action.

Berlin authorities are considering responding to the assassination of those two Young Turk genociders by expelling all Armenians from the city. Germans are not big on irony.

The Nebraska Supreme Court upholds a wartime law banning the teaching of German to pre-high school students in any schools, including private and parochial schools

Sir Bertram Windle of the University of Toronto will speak at the New York Province of Newman Clubs at the Waldorf-Astoria on the subject “No, Your Name Is Fucking Hilarious.”

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