Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Today -100: April 30, 1919: It is just one of those outrages that beggar description

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A bomb is mailed to the home of former senator Thomas Hardwick (D-Georgia). Hardwick says he has no idea who the “miscreant” is. “It is ju...
Monday, April 29, 2019

Today -100: April 29, 1919: Of supreme offenses against international morality

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The Peace Conference decides , for now, that former kaiser Wilhelm should be tried by a special tribunal made up of 5 judges from 5 countri...
Sunday, April 28, 2019

Today -100: April 28, 1919: Of jollies

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The Italian people used to like Woodrow Wilson. Now they don’t . Headline of the Day -100:  I should think it would. Actually, ...
Saturday, April 27, 2019

Today -100: April 27, 1919: The Italian people have often known hunger, but never dishonor

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Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando does the balcony-speech thing in Rome, telling the crowd that even if the Allies retaliate against...
Friday, April 26, 2019

Today -100: April 26, 1919: Of walk-outs, the abolition of slavery, and dead Indians

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The Italians leave the Peace Conference, but claim it’s just to fulfill PM Vittorio Orlando’s promise to brief Parliament. Which would exp...
Thursday, April 25, 2019

Today -100: April 25, 1919: The world is tired of war only for the time being

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Major Gen. Leonard Wood says the idea that the League of Nations will prevent wars is “idle twaddle and a dream of mollycoddles”. Idle twa...
Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Today -100: April 24, 1919: Fiuming

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The Italian delegation to the Peace Conference (which includes PM Vittorio Orlando and Foreign Minister Sidney Sonnino) says it’s...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Today -100: April 23, 1919: Firm for Fiume

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Headline of the Day -100:  Iowa gives the presidential vote to women. Headline of the Day -100:   The Times is re...
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Monday, April 22, 2019

Today -100: April 22, 1919: Of Fiume and hearty welcomes

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Germany is grumbling that it won’t sign the peace treaty without negotiations. The Daily Telegraph (UK) says Germany has signed a trea...
Sunday, April 21, 2019

Today -100: April 21, 1919: Of songs, ideal anarchists, and caged envoys

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A bunch of soldiers and sailors invade a concert of the Master Bakers’ – bakers! bakers! bakers with a k! – Association in New York City a...
Saturday, April 20, 2019

Today -100: April 20, 1919: Of sullen attitudes, frequent shootings of a casual nature, and moral fibre

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India: “The people are reported to be maintaining a sullen attitude.” Possibly because the British keep shooting them. Mobs of unemployed...
Friday, April 19, 2019

Today -100: April 19, 1919: Do not get the idea that we are lying awake nights, trying to do you an injustice

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The India Office reports that on the 13th a mob in Amritsar ignored the ban on public meetings, there was some shooting and there were 200...
Thursday, April 18, 2019

Today -100: April 18, 1919: Of censorship and ufas

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The US Navy has stopped censoring cables to parts of Europe and Latin America and the Far East. Britain, which controls much of cable traf...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Today -100: April 17, 1919: Belgium does not seek revenge

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British Prime Minister Lloyd George returns from the peace talks to make a speech to Parliament challenging his enemies, i.e., the Northcl...
Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Today -100: April 16, 1919: Of riots, commissioners, and communization of women

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An article entitled “India Riots Widespread,” which blames the passive resistance movement because of course it does, refers in passing to...
Monday, April 15, 2019

Today -100: April 15, 1919: Of hunger strikers, red orgies, race riots, and five and dimes

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Britain releases 89 hunger-striking Irish political prisoners, most of whom were unconvicted, either awaiting trial by court-martial or in...
Sunday, April 14, 2019

Today -100: April 14, 1919: Of crimes against humanity, red rules, wine, and pension protests

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Turkey executes Kemal Bey, the governor of Diarbekr, by public hanging for his role in the Armenian Genocide, making him the first person ...
Saturday, April 13, 2019

Today -100: April 13, 1919: There could be no question of undue severity

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Pilot Harry Hawker and his navigator, Lt. Commander Mackenzie Grieve (Hawker & Grieve, couldn’t make it up), start their trans-Atlanti...
Friday, April 12, 2019

Today -100: April 12, 1919: No viva

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At Paris, the Powers are discussing conditions under which they could provide food to Russia. Pres. Wilson proposes offering food on the c...
Thursday, April 11, 2019

Today -100: April 11, 1919: If blood is spilled it will be on the heads of the Communist maniacs

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370 Members of Parliament send a telegram to Lloyd George, demanding he present Germany with a bill for the total cost of the war. He resp...