Today -100: June 2, 1926: Of intellectual freedoms and animal dogmas

Former Prime Minister David Lloyd George is more or less expelled from the Liberal Party by H.H. Asquith (aka the Earl of Oxford and Asquith) for having written a letter during the General Strike™ that was a little more sympathetic to the strikers than the Liberal leaders, who backed the Baldwin government’s hard-line position. Asquith is claiming that LG’s failure to attend a meeting of the Shadow Cabinet amounted to a resignation.

Ignacy Mościcki is elected president of Poland following Józef Piłsudski’s refusal of the post yesterday. He’ll be a sock-puppet president for the military until 1939.

The Tennessee Supreme Court hears the appeal of the Scopes Monkey Trial conviction. Clarence Darrow calls for the “intellectual freedom of man,” while K.T. McConnico, for the state, calls on the Court to resist “sinister and unclean” efforts to teach “this animal dogma.”

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