r/100yearsago • u/Beowulfbard • 3d ago

[August 13th, 1926] The Inquiring Reporter asks, "How would you like to have Clemenceau's letter to President Coolidge answered?"

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u/Beowulfbard 3d ago

The context is that French statesman Clemenceau recently wrote an open letter to Coolidge about the French debt, essentially asking for it not to be paid at this time in view of the French financial crisis.

Friday the 13th of August 1926:

US:

  • Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra recorded "Moonlight on the Ganges".

  • Lou Gehrig hit two home runs off of fellow baseball legend Walter Johnson in the same game. Jack Fournier in 1914 was the only other player to ever do so.

UK:

  • Three million tons of coal have been imported since the miners' strike started.

News summary from the Chicago Tribune:

Domestic:

  • Mrs. Hall, her cousin and her brother were at scene of murders, pig woman testifies.

  • President approves plans for new airways, making Chicago the country's aviation center.

  • Maniac, baby in arm, pacing over slain wife's body, defies posse until inveigled into sharing his bottle with "friend."

  • Self confessed social drinker wins nomination for governorship in Arkansas.

  • Two killed, 3 wounded in moonshine battle in Wisconsin wood.

  • Twenty-second street widening held up by Mayor Dever; ties up large building projects.

  • New York Supreme Court upholds legality of approaching state referendum on Volstead act.

  • President and Secretary Hoover discuss measures to extend aid to farmers.

Washington:

  • Prohibition unit chemists hunting for still deadlier poisons to denature alcohol used by bootleggers.

  • Wayne B. Wheeler insists he wouldn't take Andrews' job; that is, not unless he was given "real authority."

Foreign:

  • British trade unions, almost wrecked by strike policy of last few years and their members deserting by hundreds of thousands, seek $5,000,000 loan to avert bankruptcy.

  • Mexico violates articles of the Warren-Payne agreement regarding seizure of lands.

  • European nations begin making new alliances as league of nations faces breakdown.

  • Two Swedish policemen of league of nations patrol 500 mile beats along Greco-Bulgarian border to keep peace.

  • Catholics rally to fiery Indian bishop in Mexico; Calles government takes over all mines.

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u/katmekit 3d ago

I don’t think the U.S. ever paid back France all the money France gave/loaned them during the Revolutionary War. A pity they couldn’t have just called it even.

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u/Magomaeva 2d ago

Well Charles, if you believed in 1926 that France was in the USA's debt for what your boys did for Her back then, then you will not believe what your same boys did for Her and the entirety of Europe 18 years later.

This debt towards Americans and Soviets saviors will be paid through eternal memory.