Friday, February 24, 1923. Freistaat Flaschenhals kaput, The National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska created, Yucatán races to the divorce bottom, Gen. Allen departs.

The National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA) was established by President Harding, via an executive order.  It was at the time called the Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4.

The Declaration of the Rights of the Child was published in Geneva.  It stated:

1  The child must be given the means requisite for its normal development, both materially and spiritually.

2.  The child that is hungry must be fed, the child that is sick must be nursed, the child that is backward must be helped, the delinquent child must be reclaimed, and the orphan and the waif must be sheltered and succoured.

3.  The child must be the first to receive relief in times of distress.

4.  The child must be put in a position to earn a livelihood, and must be protected against every form of exploitation.

5. The child must be brought up in the consciousness that its talents must be devoted to the service of its fellow men.

It's worth noting that Putin's Russian government is kidnapping Ukrainian children, brainwashing them, and sending them out to Russian families to be "adopted" and raised as Russians.

The French eliminated the Freistaat Flaschenhals, the "Free State of the Bottleneck, which had been that bizarre self-governing strip of land between the US and French occupation zones in post World War One Germany.

No weird thing lasts forever.

On the same day, U.S. Major General Henry Allen, left the German fortress of Ehrenbreitstein in Koblenz, de facto ending the U.S. occupation in Germany.

Allen, who opposed French actions in the Ruhr, went on to lead a successful campaign to raise funds for German children and pregnant women.  In spite of his then advanced age, 77, he was considered as the running mate for Al Smith's 1928 running mate, and received votes for that office.  A West Point graduate from 1882, he was in the cavalry branch and lived an adventuresome life in the Army, being posted in Alaska, and then later serving in the Spanish American War and the Punitive Expedition, prior to serving in World War One, in which he commanded the 90th Infantry Division.

Yucatán sent a press release to American news agencies that cheap divorces were now available in that Mexican state.