Today -100: February 10, 1923: Of ultimata, refugees, war debts, and monkey guards

Turkey backs down from its ultimatum for foreign warships to leave Smyrna harbor, pending negotiations.

The US deports 90 ethnic Greek and Armenian refugees from Smyrna, with 60 to follow, because the immigrant quota for the fiscal year has been reached and Labor Secretary James Davis refuses to make an exception, ethnic cleansing or no ethnic cleansing.

The House of Representatives passes the British deal. Britain will repay its war debt over 62 years. (Actually it was a bit later.)

The IRA reject the Free State’s surrender amnesty ultimatum.

In Paris, a monkey named Caleb traps a burglar in a storeroom, locks him in, and waits for his owners to come home and call the police.

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