General Pershing reviewing troops at Jackson Barracks, February 16, 1920.
On this day in 1920, Columbia joined the League of Nations, Armenia made a statement to the League in Paris that it was ready to enter into negotiations to secure its borders, and the US and the European powers went into a spat about Yugoslavia in which the US threatened to back out of Europe entirely.
Cardinal Patrick O'Donnell
In Ireland, where there was no peace but low grade guerrilla war, there were now 41,000 British troops serving in the country, up from 25,000 prior to the war. Bishop Charles McHugh of Derry accused the British of "military despotism", Bishop Thomas O'Doherty of Clonfert referred to British rule as a "regime of militarism" and Bishop, later Cardinal, Patrick O'Donnell stated that an "atmosphere of war and blood coupled with resentment, and the indignities of military rule, was in some danger of endangering wrong notions in regard to human life."
The statements by the Bishops was significant in that the struggle between the Irish and the English had a strong confessional based to it. The Bishops weighing in lent support to the common Irish people's distress that that the British were treating them as occupied people and and unfairly.
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