Today -100: November 12, 1926: Of armies, non-writers, and straw clocks

The French government will introduce bills reducing its army from 650,000 to 400,000 and conscription from 18 months to 12.

Coolidge gives an Armistice Day speech saying the US won’t join the World Court except on the terms laid down by the Senate, which would give the US a bunch of exemptions no one else has.

Wilson’s ambassador to Germany James Gerard, in an Armistice Day speech at Richmond Hill High School, says Europe hates us.

George Bernard Shaw is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Which baffles him a little; he thinks it must be a reward “because I wrote nothing at all this year.”

Some dude in Germany builds a clock made of straw. Just straw. Clockwork, pendulum, all that shit, made of straw. No picture of it seems to survive.

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