Count Antonio Cippico, an Italian Fascist senator and Italian delegate to the League of Nations, lectures at the Institute of Politics, defending the “cruel necessity” of war. I mean, a nation might need to do war to “remedy the defects of its geographical, political or economic situation in the world or to make good its own civilization as opposed to the inferior civilization of other people.”
William Jennings Bryan writes a letter to the NYT saying Clarence Darrow’s accusation that he is an ignoramus unfairly took advantage of the fact that he doesn’t know shit about shit.
The California Board of Education disappoints Fundamentalists by accepting biology textbooks that include the e-word.
I gotta hand it to the Count -- he certainly was unapologetically perceptive. "It seems to me utterly useless...given the actual world economic struggle to attempt the complete abolition of war either by popular movements or by congresses tending to total or partial disarmament." No talk of arms for "defense" or "deterrence" -- just leveling the playing field using war as the means.
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