Today -100: September 3, 1923: We need a revolution, bloodshed and a dictatorship

Headline of the Day -100:  

The enormity of the Japanese earthquake is becoming clearer.

Italy says it won’t be attending League of Nations meetings concerning its dispute with Greece, so it won’t consider itself bound by any decisions made there. Don’t think that’s how it works. Italy adds a new demand, for Greece to pay the costs of the Italian occupation of Corfu.

The Nuremberg, um, rally features Field Marshal Erich Ludendorff, who presents a silver goblet to 17-year-old not-prince Ferdinand of Bavaria and calls him “your highness,” creating some confusion about whether Ferdy is being named as the Bavarian or the German king.  Hitler calls for another revolution, “not that Socialist, bourgeoisie and Jewish revolution of 1918 but a nationalist revolution today to restore Germany’s might and greatness. We can save Germany from internal and foreign foes only through blood and sword. We need a revolution, bloodshed and a dictatorship.” The supposed 150,000 crowd includes monarchists (again, Bavarian and/or German ones), Hitler’s fascists in their finery, veterans of the Franco-Prussian War and World War I, etc.

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