Today -100: February 19, 1926: If they want to start something they’ll get what’s coming to them

Pres. Coolidge has the flu.

Rep. Charles L. Underhill (R-Mass.) warns the Philippines independence movement (now including both major Filipino political parties) “If they want to start something they’ll get what’s coming to them.” Continuing to make the movement’s case for them, he says Filipinos are “no more fit for self-government than a lot of children.”

Anthony Bimba, a Lithuanian-born Communist and editor of left-wing Lithuanian-language newspapers, will go on trial in Massachusetts for blasphemy under a law passed during the witch trials in Salem (39 miles from Brockton, where Bimba made his speech, in Lithuanian). He denied that there was a God. He’s also charged with sedition.

PM Theodoros Pangalos banishes former PM Alexandros Papanastasiou, former interior minister Georgios Kondylis and other opposition figures to the tiny island of Anafi. The government says the move is to “allay public anxiety.” Also, all private firearms, except those used in sport, naturally, are ordered turned in.

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