British authorities seem to think a Communist uprising is coming: trying to subvert soldiers, “laying plans for a general outbreak of hooliganism” featuring “a wholesale window-smashing orgy,” who knows what shenanigans they might get up to. Scotland Yard is expected to round up the usual Red suspects shortly, as was/is the custom. In Islington, Communists attack a National Fascisti meeting.
Turkey and Britain are disputing Iraq’s borders. Turkey now says it may not accept any League of Nations decision and will insist on a plebiscite in Mosul over whether it joins Iraq or Turkey.
A large white mob besiege the home in a white neighborhood of Detroit into which the black family of Dr. Ossian Sweet have just moved. Someone, Sweet or one of his friends protecting the house, shoots at the unruly mob, killing the guy who lives across the street and was just watching from his porch. Everyone in the Sweet house is arrested. The NAACP and Clarence Darrow will become involved, so more on this later.
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