Sunday, October 30, 2022

Today -100: October 30, 1922: To Rome


Italy’s King Victor Emmanuel calls on Benito Mussolini, 39, to form a government. The Fascists’ demands escalated rather quickly over the last few days from 5 Cabinet ministers to 6 to complete control. And now they’ll have it. Mussolini is on his way to Rome to meet the king (he’s been making statements recently repudiating his former anti-monarchical views).

We are told that France’s “gravest fear” about the Fascist takeover is that there might be “difficulties” with Yugoslavia. The Fascists are again talking about reclaiming Fiume (Mussolini met with Poet-Aviator Gabriele d’Annunzio yesterday), the Swiss canton of Ticino, and even Malta and Tunisia.

Kansas Gov. Henry Allen (R) orders the attorney general to expel all Ku Klux Klan officials from the state. They didn’t apply for a charter, and they probably do other bad things.

The incoming class at Columbia includes a 12-year-old who wants to be a lawyer, seven 15-year-olds and 56 16-year-olds. It would have been helpful to know the total size of the freshman class.

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