Today -100: August 13, 1925: Of highly civilized nations and petting parties

German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann says that when Germany enters the League of Nations, it will insist on getting back some of its former colonies now ruled as League “mandates” by Britain, France, etc. He refers to the “right of Germany to have colonies,” asserting that “as long as the League distributed colonies on the principle that the highly civilized nations had the right to control the less progressive peoples, Germany demanded the right to be counted among the civilized nations.”

The University of California, Berkeley informs incoming women freshmen against frivolities such as wearing too much rouge and lipstick, returning from dances after 1 a.m., smoking, drinking, petting parties, etc.

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