Today -100: April 18, 1925: A most difficult period

The left-centrist candidate for president of Germany, Wilhelm Marx, comes out for annexation of Austria. That’s... new.

Bulgarian PM Aleksandar Tsankov says “Bulgaria is passing through a most difficult period,” blaming the various assassinations and bombings and shit on Communists supported by Russia. Which is actually true.

I can’t find a date for this more specific than April, so I’ll just stick it here. The Crisis quotes Sen. Coleman Blease (D-SC): “I think the greatest mistake a white man ever made was to put his hand in his pocket to educate a nigger. You can’t educate a horse or a mule or a cow, and you can’t educate a nigger. They weren’t made to be educated. We don’t need them for lawyers or pharmacists and all that. They were made to cut wood, draw water, and work in the fields.”

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