Today -100: November 14, 1926: Of censorship, monarchists, and charioting in drag

Polish dictator Marshal Józef Piłsudski asks the Sejm (Parliament) to switch jurisdiction over newspapers from the courts to his government to enforce his ban on publishing anything critical of the government.

The reactionary royalist Camelots du Roi stage a “brief but fierce riot” outside the Sorbonne to protest Minister of Public Instruction Édouard Herriot’s presence at a literary conference on Victor Hugo. 

Anthony Asquith, the prime minister’s son who will become a film director, appears as a stunt man standing in for Phyllis Neilson-Terry in “Boadicea,” driving a chariot in a wig.

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