I guess the people have said they don’t want him any more. King Constantine, after first offering to go to Thrace to lead the Greek Army, abdicates the Greek throne in favor of Crown Prince George, but his wishes for the succession may not prevail, some preferring Prince Christopher; for now, there’s no king. And who will be prime minister? There’s a demonstration in favor of exile former PM Eleutherios Venizelos; the army kindly offers to form a government.
No doubt a complete coincidence, but the abdication of King Constantine is followed immediately by news that his niece, Princess Olga, and Crown Prince Fred of Denmark have broken off their engagement. They only met twice before announcing the engagement, which “gave rise to the belief that it was a case of love at first sight” in people who don’t understand how royal marriages work. She’ll have to settle for a Yugoslav prince.
The NY Society for the Suppression of Vice prosecutes the publisher of The Satyricon and once again loses in court. The magistrate, who’s done an extraordinary amount of research in coming to this judgment – “it took me back to school days once more” – suggests that the law didn’t intend to produce censorship of literature from the first century AD. The publisher, who glories in the name Horace Liveright and whose attorney is Arthur Garfield Hays, a man named after three mediocre presidents (really), plans to sue the Vice Society for libel.
The Irish Free State government will set up military courts with the power to inflict the death penalty.
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