Thursday, July 13, 1911. Edward, the Prince of Wales. The Third Anglo-Japanese Agreement of Alliance.

The Third Anglo-Japanese Agreement of Alliance was signed by the United Kingdom and Japan, which was somewhat of a British protégé, extending the date of the alliance from 1915 to 1921.

Prince Edward was invested as the Prince of Wales, in Wales, the first time since 1616 that the ceremony had occurred there.

The title is an ancient one which originated with the Welsh  rulers of Gwynedd to signal their claim to superiority over other Welsh princes. They began to use it in the 12th Century.  Edward I of England co opted it for his son Edward of Caernarfon where the use of it, sometimes challenged, for the future King of England started.

Edward I investing his son Edward of Caernarvon (the later King Edward II), as the prince of Wales, 1301.

The whole thing, while symbolic, and brought about as David Lloyd George, was Welsh, was unfortunate in some was, given Edward's later history.

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Wednesday, July 12, 1911. Stealing second, third, and home.

Labels: 1910s, 1911, baseball, Disaster, Michigan

Friday, July 7, 1911. Fur seals, heat wave.

The United States, Russia, the United Kingdom and Japan signed the Convention on the International Protection of Fur Seals, prohibiting hunting of the endangered animals in the North Pacific Ocean.

Populations rebounded by 30% within six years.

King George V and Queen Mary arrived in Dublin for a visit of Ireland, of which they were its monarchs.

The North American East Coast was in the grips of a terrible heat wave.

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Thursday, July 6, 1911. Taft saves from mining.

Labels: 1910s, 1911, California, Colorado, Colorado National Guard, Diplomacy, Geology, Labor unrest, nature, Public Land, William Howard Taft

Thursday, July 6, 1911. Taft saves from mining.

Labor unrest resulting in the National Guard being called out in Colorado.

Publisher Charles Curtis debuted a new version of the farmers' magazine Country Gentleman.

The magazine, whose covers have often appeared here, had declined down to 2,000 subscribers at the time.

An arbitration treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom was signed.

President Taft created the Devils Postpile National Monument in Madera County, California.  His doing so saved it from mining companies that were set to demolish the pillars in order to build a dam.

The current administration likely wouldn't lift a finger.

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Monday, July 3, 1911. Panther arrives.

Labels: 1910s, 1911, Agadir Crisis, Canada, Canada (New Brunswick), Disaster, French Empire, German Kriegsmarine, Labor unrest, Mexico, William Howard Taft

Sunday, July 2, 1911. Krazy Kat debuts.

 Krazy Kat debuted as a spinoff from The Dingbat Family, which it would supplant.

The United States broke diplomatic relations with Colombia over an ongoing dispute about the US's role in severing Panama in 1903 from the country, which was a fairly stinky thing for the US to do.  It was based on our desire to see the canal built on the Isthmus of Panama.  The US was attempting to repair the situation, which understandably upset Colombia.

The ongoing balkanization of Central America is a major source of its ongoing difficulties today.  Some of the territory which is now in independent states bordering Mexico should really be part of Mexico and the balance, perhaps absent Panama, one single state.  This would, in fact, comport with the original hopes of those who severed those regions from Spain.

The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered an investigation of all express train companies in the United States.

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Saturday, July 1, 1911. The Agadir Crisis commences.

Labels: 1910s, 1911, Agadir Crisis, Art, France, French Empire, German Army, German Kriegsmarine, Independence Day, J. C. Leyendecker, Morocco

Friday, June 14, 1946. No nukes.

The United States proposed to the  United Nations Atomic Energy Commission a proposal for United Nations to control all nuclear weapons. 

The proposal was remarkable for a number of reason, not the least of which was that it would have subjected the entire collection of the world's nations to a sort of limited central government.  It also shows how liberal politics in the U.S. were at the time.

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Wednesday, June 12, 1946. British reject Jewish immigration to Palestine.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, British League of Nations Mandates, Palestine

Tuesday, June 1, 1976. End of the Cod Wars.

 The UK and Iceland came to an agreement ending the Cod Wars.

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Monday, May 31, 1976. Syria invades Lebanon.

Labels: 1970s, 1976, Cod Wars, East Timor, Growing up in the 1970s, Lebanese Army, Lebanese Front, Lebanon, Palestinian Liberation Organization, Syria, Syrian Army, Syrian invasion of Lebanon, Teenagers

Trump goes to China, without any cards It's enough to make the Nixon era seem like the good old days.

 

Trump goes to China, without any cards

It's enough to make the Nixon era seem like the good old days.

Saturday, April 24, 1926. Neutral but hedging bets.

The Soviet Union and Weimar Germany pledged to remain neutral if either nation got into a war in the next five  years.

A Flapper Fanny cartoon for the day:

It was a Saturday.

The Saturday Evening Post had a Rockwell that would go on to be one of his favored illustrations.

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Wednesday, April 21, 1926. The Day of Sorrow.

Labels: 1920s, 1926, Islam, Monarchy, Saudi Arabia (Medina), United Kingdom

Wednesday, March 3, 1926. National Forest Week.

The Moody Bible Institute made the first radio broadcast of an evangelical radio program.

Odd to think they didn't exist at one time.

Germany and Afghanistan entered into a treat of friendship.

Coolidge proclaimed National Forest Week.

Proclamation, March 3, 1926

Purpose: To proclaim and celebrate American Forest Week

Date: March 3, 1926

(Original document available here)

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In again proclaiming American Forest Week it is fitting that, while giving full weight to the evils resulting from impoverished forests and idle land, I should lay stress upon the outward spread of forestry in industrial practice and land usage. Too long have we as a nation consumed our forest wealth without adequate provision for its wise utilization and renewal. But a gratifying change is taking place in the attitude of our industries, our landowners, and the American people toward our forests.

The wise use of land is one of the main foundations of sound national economy. It is the corner stone of national thrift. The waste or misuse of natural resources cuts away the groundwork on which national prosperity is built. If we are to flourish, as a people and as individuals, we must neither wastefully hoard nor wastefully exploit, but skillfully employ and renew the resources that nature has entrusted to us. America’s forest problem essentially is a problem involving the wise use of land that can and should produce crops of timber.

Flourishing woodlands, however, mean more than timber crops, permanent industries, and an adequate supply of wood. They minister to our need for outdoor recreation; they preserve animal and bird life; they protect and beautify our hillsides and feed our streams; they preserve the inspiring natural environment which has contributed so much to American character.

Although our national progress in forestry has been well begun, much remains to be done through both concerted and individual effort. We must stamp out the forest fires which still annually sweep many wooded areas, destroying timber the nation can ill afford to lose and killing young growth needed to constitute the forests of the future. Forest fires, caused largely by human indifference or carelessness, are the greatest single obstacle to reforestation and effective forest management.

We must encourage and extend methods of timber cutting which perpetuate the forest while harvesting its products. We must plant trees in abundance on idle land where they can profitably be grown. We must examine taxation practices that may form economic barriers to timber culture. We must encourage the extension of forest ownership on the part of municipalities, counties, States, and the Federal Government. And we must take common counsel in public meetings to the end that the forestry problems of each region may be well considered and adequately met.

Now, therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week of April 18–24, inclusive, 1926, as American Forest Week; and I recommend to the Governors of the various States that they also designate the week of April 18–24 as American Forest Week and observe Arbor Day within that week wherever practicable and not in conflict with law or accepted custom. And I urge public officials, public and business organizations, industrial leaders, landowners, editors, educators, clergymen, and all patriotic citizens to unite in the common task of forest conservation and renewal.

The action of the Canadian Government in likewise proclaiming the week of April 18–24, inclusive, as a period when the utmost stress shall be laid upon the problems of forest conservation and renewal, thus unifying the respective efforts of Canada and the United States, is an added reason why our citizens should give careful thought to a matter so important to both countries.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington this third day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fiftieth.

Nassau Street, New York City, March 3, 1926.

Today In Wyoming's History: March 3: 1916  A spinsters convention is held in Gillette. Attribution:  Wyoming State Historical Society.

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Saturday, February 20, 1926.

Labels: 1920s, 1926, Art

Saturday, February 26, 1876. The Japan Korea Treaty of Amity.

Japan and Korean signed the Japan Korea Treaty of Amity, formally ending Korea's status as a tributary state of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, but giving Japan special rights in an independent Korea.

While it recognized Korean independence, the treaty treated Korea as an inferior state, and was a step on the way to colonization of the peninsula.

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Monday, February 15, 1876. Texas adopts its current constitution.

Labels: 1870s, 1876, law, Texas

Tuesday, February 2, 1926.

A play, adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, premiered at the Ambassador Theater on Broadway, which is remarkable in more ways than one, one being that this was well before the collapse in the economy that is so often figured into the novel, but which the novel anticipated as a moral collapse.

The incite of the novel, accordingly, can hardly be appreciated today, and indeed should be reread today, given the current times.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

The Great Gatsby.

Representatives of the governments of the UK and France, which nearly went to war in 1918/1919 over the fate of Syria, signed a treaty of friendship on behalf of the British Mandate for Palestine and the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon.  Notably, the native populations for both areas had utterly no desire that either European power be there.

Four members of the illegal Black Reichswehr were sentenced to death for politically motivated murders in Germany.

A banquet was held at the Hotel Astor to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the National League.

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Saturday, January 30, 1926. Pinks and Greens.

Labels: 1920s, 1926, 1940, 1940s, 1941, 1950s, 1954, Allied Occupation of the Ruhr, Allied Occupation of Germany, Army, Art, Billy Mitchell, Clothing, German Weimar Republic, It was because of World War Two, Personalities

Saturday, December 22, 1945. Truman prioritizes displaced persons in immigration.

DIRECTIVE BY THE PRESIDENT ON IMMIGRATION

TO THE UNITED STATES OF CERTAIN DISPLACED PERSONS AND REFUGEES IN EUROPE

Memorandum to: Secretary of State, Secretary of War, Attorney General, War Shipping Administrator, Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, Director General of UNRRA:

The grave dislocation of populations in Europe resulting from the war has produced human suffering that the people of the United States cannot and will not ignore. This Government should take every possible measure to facilitate full immigration to the United States under existing quota laws.

The war has most seriously disrupted our normal facilities for handling immigration matters in many parts of the world. At the same time, the demands upon those facilities have increased many-fold. It is, therefore, necessary that immigration under the quotas be resumed initially in the areas of greatest need. I, therefore, direct the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, the Attorney General, the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, the War Shipping Administrator, and other appropriate officials to take the following action:

The Secretary of State is directed to establish with the utmost despatch consular facilities at or near displaced person and refugee assembly center areas in the American zones of occupation. It shall be the responsibility of these consular officers, in conjunction with the Immigrant Inspectors, to determine as quickly as possible the eligibility of the applicants for visas and admission to the United States. For this purpose the Secretary will, if necessary, divert the personnel and funds of his Department from other functions in order to insure the most expeditious handling of this operation. In cooperation with the Attorney General, he shall appoint as temporary vice-consuls, authorized to issue visas, such officers of the Immigration and Naturalization Service as can be made available for this program. Within the limits of administrative discretion, the officers of the Department of State assigned to this program shall make every effort to simplify and to hasten the process of issuing visas. If necessary, blocs of visa numbers may be assigned to each of the emergency consular establishments. Each such bloc may be used to meet the applications filed at the consular establishment to which the bloc is assigned. It is not intended however entirely to exclude the issuance of visas in other parts of the world.

Visas should be distributed fairly among persons of all faiths, creeds and nationalities. I desire that special attention be devoted to orphaned children to whom it is hoped the majority of visas will be issued.

With respect to the requirement of law that visas may not be issued to applicants likely to become public charges after admission to the United States, the Secretary of State shall cooperate with the Immigration and Naturalization Service in perfecting appropriate arrangements with welfare organizations in the United States which may be prepared to guarantee financial support to successful applicants. This may be accomplished by corporate affidavit or by any means deemed appropriate and practicable.

The Secretary of War, subject to limitations imposed by the Congress on War Department appropriations, will give such help as is practicable in:

(a) Furnishing information to appropriate consular officers and Immigrant Inspectors to facilitate in the selection of applicants for visas; and

(b) Assisting until other facilities suffice in: (1) transporting immigrants to a European port; (2) feeding, housing and providing medical care to such immigrants until embarked; and

(c) Making available office facilities, billets, messes, and transportation for Department of State, Department of Justice, and United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration personnel connected with this work, where practicable and requiring no out-of-pocket expenditure by the War Department and when other suitable facilities are not available.

The Attorney General, through the Immigration and Naturalization Service, will assign personnel to duty in the American zones of occupation to make the immigration inspections, to assist consular officers of the Department of State in connection with the issuance of visas, and to take the necessary steps to settle the cases of those aliens presently interned at Oswego through appropriate statutory and administrative processes.

The Administrator of the War Shipping Administration will make the necessary arrangements for water transportation from the port of embarkation in Europe to the United States subject to the provision that the movement of immigrants will in no way interfere with the scheduled return of service personnel and their spouses and children from the European theater.

The Surgeon General of the Public Health Service will assign to duty in the American zones of occupation the necessary personnel to conduct the mental and physical examinations of prospective immigrants prescribed in the immigration laws.

The Director General of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration will be requested to provide all possible aid to the United States authorities in preparing these people for transportation to the United States and to assist in their care, particularly in the cases of children in transit and others needing special attention.

In order to insure the effective execution of this program, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, the Attorney General, War Shipping Administrator and the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service shall appoint representatives to serve as members of an interdepartmental committee under the Chairmanship of the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

The United States and the United Kingdom recognized the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

The Catholic People's Party was founded in the Netherlands.

Last edition:

Friday, December 21, 1945. Patton dies.

Labels: 1940s, 1945, China, Chinese Civil War, Death, George S. Patton, Patton Slapping Incident, Personalities, Petroleum, Post death visitations by the dead, Transportation, Wyoming (Casper), Wyoming's boom and bust economy

Tuesday, December 1, 1925. Hoping to avoid war and hedging the bets.

The Locarno Treaties were formally signed in London.

France concluded treaties with Poland and Czechoslovakia pledging mutual assistance in the event of an attack by Germany on any of the signatories.

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Saturday, November 28, 1925. Grand Old Opry premiers.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Art, Blog Mirror, entertainment, Folk Music, J. C. Leyendecker, Music, Radio, Tennessee (Nashville), Thanksgiving

Friday, November 27, 1925. Hill Packing.

The Casper Tribune reported on major events of the day, but what drew my attention was the horse packing plant.  I was completely unaware that Casper had every had one.

A little digging shows the company was still in business in February 1928, and doing well enough to have a full page ad.

By that time it was then packing everything, including poultry.  Horses were still noted, however, with the reference to wild horses, "outlaws of the range".  The company advertised into the 1930s, and there were newspaper reports of it taking in huge numbers of horses.

What happened to it?

Of interest on this story, the plant was owned by Hill Milling Company, which still exists.  It's Hill's Pet Nutrition today.  Apparently in the 1930s it was a major supplier of horse meat to Europe.

The Soviet Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars.established Gostrudsberkassy, the savings bank for workers in the Soviet Union.

On the same day, the USSR and the Emirate of Afghanistan went to war over control of the island of Urta Tagay.  

The small war over the island resulted from Imperial Russian troops having to abandon the island in 1920 in order to aid the White cause, with the island, long claimed by Afghanistan, then occupied.  The fight drew the attention of western nations, and amazingly Afghanistan won.

The Reichstag approved the Locarno Treaties.

Last edition:

Thursday, November 26, 1925. Thanksgiving Day.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Blog Mirror, Calvin Coolidge, Christianity, football, Holidays, religion, Sports, Thanksgiving, United States Marine Corps, Whatever It Is I'm against it, Wyoming (Edgerton)

Friday, November 14, 1975. The Madrid Accords.

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The Madrid Accords between Spain, Morocco, and Mauritania set out six principles which would end Spanish presence in the territory of Spanish Sahara and arrange a temporary administration in the area pending a referendum.

Israeli troops pulled back from their positions in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula in accordance with the peace treat arranged in September.  As part of this they turned over the Ras Suhr oil fields captured in 1967 to the United Nations.  The US agreed to pay Israel $350,000,000 for the loss of oil revenue.

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Tuesday, November 11, 1975. Angola independent and at war.

Labels: 1970s, 1975, Angola, Angolan Civil War, Australia, Blog Mirror, Politics, Portugal, Portuguese Empire, Veterans Day