Today -100: December 11, 1924: If the white people do not want to degenerate....

German Chancellor Wilhelm Marx and his Cabinet will resign after he fails to put together a new post-election coalition. Marx wants to include more Socialists but Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann’s People’s Party wants a shift to the right, bringing in monarchist nationalist opponents of the Weimar Republic.

Japan is pissed that Britain plans to expand its naval base in Singapore. It doesn’t believe this is just about defending Australia.

Yotaro Sugimura, the Japanese delegate to the Opium Conference, pulls out, despairing at the deadlock. He says the greatest danger from opium is to the white races rather than the Orientals. The Japanese are the only Orientals not dominated by the West, because they don’t use opium. “If the white people do not want to degenerate, they must suppress drugs.”

There’s so much competition in the hangman trade now, at least in Manitoba, that the fee has been reduced from $250 to $100. Free market, baby!

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