Wednesday, July 26, 1922. Regular courts, regular limits, combating prejudice.

The U.S. submarine S-50 in port, photographed on this day in 1922.

The Provisional Government of Southern Ireland suspended all sessions of the nationalist established Dáil Courts in favor of the courts of the Irish Free State.  A pre independence tactic had been co-opting the features of regular civil life in a new nationalist system.

The British rejected an American proposal to search British vessels for alcohol outside the country's three-mile territorial limit.

Greek immigrants to the United States, facing racism and bigotry, established the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (Order of AHEPA) with the mission of promoting unity and assimilation into their new home country’s society.  Like immigrants from various Catholic countries, the largely Orthodox Greek immigrants were the targets of nativist hatred.