Today -100: March 8, 1923: The armed forces may help some people to make up their minds to give their consent

Bavaria arrests conspirators aiming to place Prince Rupprecht on the traditional throne of the Mad Kings of Bavaria and then have the kingdom of Bavaria secede from Germany to form a nucleus to which more German territory would attach itself bit by bit. Oh, and they were planning on rule by a dictator... not sure who yet. One of the conspirators has already killed himself after being released from custody. Were they planning to do this under cover of a Czech invasion? Maybe! Were they in contact with the Nazi Party? Oh yeah! Were they being financed by French military intelligence (the Deuxième Bureau) in order to weaken Germany? What do you think? Was an orchestra director one of the ringleaders? Yes, maestro.

There’s an Italian custom/ceremony where Cabinet ministers hand their budgets to the finance minister. These days, Prime Minister Mussolini is also finance minister, so that ceremony takes place with lots of military personnel and Fascist militia present. The Duck says this is because consent to his regime is still developing and “it may happen, perhaps, that the armed forces may help some people to make up their minds to give their consent, and in any case if consent fails, the armed forces will remain.”

Vienna Polytechnic will exclude foreign Jewish students.

2 of the eye-witnesses against Sacco and Vanzetti at their 1921 trial retract their previous retractions of their trial testimony. Louis Pelsea says he was unemployed and drunk and signed the retraction for 70¢ and the promise of a “good time.” Lola Andrews says a defense attorney threatened to reveal stuff about her past life.

In 2 years in office, Harding has reduced the number of federal employees by 102,101, mostly in the army & navy.

South Carolina will give pensions to slaves who “loyally” served the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

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