Today -100: November 10, 1926: Of de-deputizations, if that’s a word, and banishments

Italy’s parliament unseats 123 opposition deputies, including Communists and the multi-party “Aventine Secession” members, who have been boycotting the parliament for 2½ years in protest at the murder of Matteotti. The claim is that they used their parliamentary prerogatives to subvert the state. They will now lose their parliamentary immunity and cheap railway rates. I can’t help but notice that no mention is made of whether these deputies will be replaced and how any replacements will be chosen.

One Mexican senator shoots another senator dead, the first time this has happened in the Senate building (fatally, anyway).

The German Socialists celebrate the 8th anniversary of the founding of the Weimar Republic by introducing a bill to ban former kaiser Wilhelm from Germany forever.

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