Today -100: November 27, 1925: Of cabinets, kings of Siam, lonely Thanksgivings, and hangings

Édouard Herriot fails to form a Cabinet (in bargaining with him, the Socialists rather overplayed their hand), so Aristide Briand is given another shot at it.

King Rama VI of Siam dies at 44. He has no male heirs but a daughter was born 2 days (or possibly 2 hours, I’ve seen both) before he died. The throne will go to his brother. VI went to Oxford, where he was a member of the Bullingdon Club, just like Boris Johnson, and he translated Romeo and Juliet and The Merchant of Venice into Thai.

Kip Rhinelander, whose family bullied him into this annulment lawsuit, has no contact with that family on Thanksgiving. He eats his dinner alone in his hotel with the family lawyer/Kip-wrangler. Alice celebrates the holiday with her family.

Two Greek colonels, one of whom was the chief of police at Saloniki, are publicly hanged outside Athens before a crowd of 30,000, for embezzling public funds. It’s a novelty, hanging having only recently been introduced in Greece. Don’t know how they used to execute people.

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