Today -100: September 8, 1925: Of disarmament, reigns of buffoonery, immigration, and whistles

At the opening of the 6th assembly of the League of Nations, French PM Paul Painlevé asks the League to convene a disarmament conference, as opposed to the conference on the very same subject which the US is thinking about calling. In another slight to the Americans, only 35 spectator seats are assigned to them, with the job of picking the lucky observers dumped on the US Embassy (Woodrow Wilson’s widow Edith gets one).

René Viviani, French PM at the start of the war (June 1914 to October 1915), “independent Socialist” and anti-Semite, dies at 61.

Dr. Stephen Wise, president of the America Jewish Congress, returns from the World Zionist Congress in Vienna and says the anti-Semitic/Hakenkreuzler protests there were actually aimed at the Austrian government rather than at Jews. Nonsense. He also has opinions about the New York City elections: “I hope that the reign of buffoonery in New York City will soon come to an end.” Spoiler Alert: Nope.

In the fiscal year ending June 30th, net immigration to the US declined 68% over the previous fy. Some countries failed to fill even the reduced quotas set by the newish immigration law, while others, including Italy, had more people return home than emigrated.

A man is fined 10s for whistling for a taxi in London, which was made an offense during the war (he used a physical whistle, not his mouth).

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