Today -100: November 19, 1923: Of occupations, konklaves, and broken clubs

French PM Raymond Poincaré says France will occupy the Ruhr not only until reparations are paid, but until every other provision of the Versailles Treaty is met.

Poland says if Germany and Bavaria don’t stop persecuting Jews, Poland will persecute Germans.

The New Jersey state organizer of the Ku Klux Klan says the Klan will soon be strong enough in the state that they can take off their hoods. Dr. William Gudlidge, National Konklave (that’s a title), at a Klan-only meeting at the First Reformed Church of West Hoboken, claims there are negro societies in Chicago and New York pledged to marry only white women. And that the Catholics plan to take over the Navy in 1926, expelling all Protestants. And that Jews are trying to destroy pure womanhood through their control of commercial vice.

A Citizens’ Vigilance Committee forms in Atlantic City to combat the Ku Klux Klan. Mayor Edward Bader (business partner of Nucky Thompson, a very fictionalized version of whom was played by Steve Buscemi in Boardwalk Empire) tells cops to “break your clubs over their heads.”

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