At the Locarno Conference, Germany agrees to apply for League of Nations membership without reservations about military commitments, but with a wink and a nod from the allies (rather than a written guarantee) that they’ll take into account Germany’s lack of a military to commit.
Obit of the Day -100: Harold Maxwell-Lefroy, entomologist and insect-slaughterer extraordinaire. He was playing with lewisite in his lab, probably (they might have been able to keep him from dying when they found him unconscious if they’d known what gas he was using but he was the secretive type). Lewisite was invented during the war as a chemical weapon by a dude named Lewis. It’s assumed Maxwell-L. was trying to use it to kill flies. Don’t fuck with flies. In fact, his young son died in India of typhoid or another of those tropical fly-borne diseases, so he wasn’t fond of flies. This is not even the first time this year he became unconscious in his lab mucking about with insecticides. M-L is credited with saving Westminster Hall from being eaten by beetles and with killing some of the lice infesting soldiers in the trenches during the war (the origin of the word “lousy,” if I haven’t mentioned that before).
Scotland Yard raids Communist Party headquarters. There’s been a lot of talk lately about seditious literature.
NY Secretary of State Florence Knapp added religious questions to the state census for Indians (and only Indians), enabling her to reveal that half of them are good Christians while half are “pagans.”
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