Today -100: October 16, 1925: Never fight again

Mussolini unexpectedly turns up at the Locarno Conference. Wants to be at the signing ceremony, I guess. He’s being asked by the Swiss authorities not to go out in public, since the region of Switzerland in which Locarno is located has many refugees expelled from Fascist Italy.

First sentence of the article on Locarno: “Today France and Germany promised never to fight again.” Phew. The demilitarized Rhine zone will exist in perpetuity, guaranteed by Britain and Italy. There’ll be arbitration treaties between Germany and France, Germany and Belgium, Germany and Czechoslovakia, and Germany and Poland (the latter two guaranteed by France). Most importantly, perhaps, Germany is now on equal footing with other nation-states.

Sen. Samuel Ralston (D) of Indiana drops dead. Gov. Ed Jackson (R) will name a Republican/Klansman, Arthur Robinson, to replace him.

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