Francisco I. Madero issued a manifesto changing the name of his movement the Progressive Constitutionalist Party (Partido Constitucional Progresista).
France and Germany agreed to negotiate an end to the Agadir Crisis.
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The Soviet military government of Austria began deporting Germans who had moved to the country after 1938. 54,000 would be repatriated to a Germany.
The News reported about a Hughes' accident.
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Chiang Kai-shek launched a nationwide offensive against the Red Chinese designed to take control of the entire country. A sign that things might not go well occurred when Nationalist pilot Liu Shanben defected to the Communists with a B-24 Liberator.
The Nationalist Army had the edge on paper. It was larger and much better equipped. It also had more combat experience, the Red Chinese having sat out much of the Second World War. The Nationalist also had the benefit of various degrees of U.S. training, and oddly enough, German training before that.
The Rocky Mountain News reported on expenses associated with The Bomb.
As we noted then:
The impacts of the war in addition to the bomb were a story several pages in.
The plight of pregnant German girls in Munich, made so by American GIs, was seemingly without a solution and without sympathy. By this point the Occupation Authorities were allowing for fraternization, but the U.S. Army was not approving enlisted marriages. The young women seemingly expected help from the Army.
Munich had been Hitler's adopted town, we'd note, which is interesting in context here as the women in question would have become pregnant by American GIs very soon after the end of the war.
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The U.S. Army made the first successful out of atmosphere rocket launch by the U.S.
The rocket, a Bumper-WAC was a two staged rocked based on the German V-2.
Transjordan and the UK signed the Treaty of London giving Transjordan its independence with the UK retaining military bases in the country.
Cardinal Clemens von Galen, the great Catholic German cleric, died at age 68 from appendicitis. He had only been made a cardinal the prior month. He had been a fearless opponent of the Nazis. To some degree, it's hard not to put him in the category of men who died shortly after World War Two after having struggled so mightily during it.
Von Galen is sort of a model of our own time. He was very German but loyal to higher things. He came from German nobility but served the Church, and he wasn't afraid to confront the barbarity of the Nazi regime.
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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
Today In Wyoming's History: March 3: 1916 A spinsters convention is held in Gillette. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
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Nazi Party members attending the Bamberg Conference approved Hitler's motion to make his position absolute, thereby establishing the Führerprinzip.
The Trump administration essentially operates under the same principal, and indeed is run in much the same way.
The conference also ended inter party feuding, which had existed up to that point and which in fact would for some time.
The conference also confirmed its 1920 twenty-five point program.
The program of the National‑Socialist German Workers’ Party is a schedule. The leaders refuse to draft new goals after the ones listed in the program are achieved, solely for the purpose of enabling the party to continue to exist by artificially increasing the dissatisfaction of the masses.
1. We demand the union of all Germans to form a Greater Germany on the basis of the people’s right to self-determination.
2. We demand equality of rights for the German people with other nations; and abolition of the peace treaties of Versailles and St. Germain.
3. We demand land and soil (colonies) for the sustenance of our people and settlement of our surplus population.
4. None but members of the Volk (a people; large tribe) may be citizens of the state. None but those of German blood, whatever their creed, may be members of the Volk. No Jew, therefore, may be a member of the Volk.
5. Whoever has no citizenship is to be able to live in Germany only as a guest and must be regarded as being subject to foreign laws.
6. The right of voting on the state's government and legislation is to be enjoyed by the citizen of the state alone. We demand therefore that all official appointments, of whatever kind, shall be granted to citizens of the state alone. We oppose the corrupting custom of parliament of filling posts merely with a view to party considerations, and without reference to character or capability.
7. We demand that the state commit itself to providing, first and foremost, opportunities for its citizens to earn a living and make a life for themselves. If it is not possible to feed the entire population of the state, then members of foreign nations (non-citizens) must be expelled from the Reich.
8. All further immigration of non-Germans must be prevented. We demand that all non-Germans, who have immigrated to Germany since 2 August 1914, be forced immediately to leave the Reich.
9. All citizens must have equal rights and obligations.
10. The first obligation of every citizen must be to work, either mentally or physically. The activities of the individual must not conflict with the interests of the general public, but must be carried out within the framework of the whole and for the benefit of all. We therefore demand:
11. Abolition of work-free and effortless income. Breaking of interest-slavery.
12. In consideration of the monstrous sacrifice of life and property that each war demands of the people, personal enrichment due to a war must be regarded as a crime against the people. Therefore, we demand ruthless confiscation of all war profits.
13. We demand nationalization of all businesses which have been up to the present formed into companies (trusts).
14. We demand that the profits of large companies shall be shared out.
15. We demand an expansion on a large scale of old age welfare.
16. We demand the creation of a healthy middle class and its conservation, immediate communalization of the great warehouses and their being leased at low cost to small firms, the utmost consideration of all small firms in contracts with the state, county or municipality.
17. We demand land reform adapted to our national needs, the creation of a law for the expropriation of land for public purposes without compensation. Abolition of land tax and prevention of all land speculation.
18. We demand struggle without consideration against those whose activity is injurious to the general interest. Common national criminals, usurers, profiteers and so forth are to be punished with death, without consideration of confession or race.
19. We demand the replacement of Roman Law, which serves the materialistic world order, with a German common law.
20. In order to enable every capable and hard-working German to attain higher education and thus enter into leading positions, the state must ensure the thorough expansion of our entire public education system. The curricula of all educational institutions must be adapted to the requirements of practical life. An understanding of the concept of the state must be achieved from the very beginning of schooling (civics). We demand that children of poor parents who are particularly gifted intellectually be educated at the expense of the state, regardless of their parents' social status or occupation.
21. The state must ensure the improvement of public health by protecting mothers and children, by prohibiting juvenile labor, by promoting physical fitness through the legal establishment of compulsory gymnastics and sports, and by providing the greatest possible support to all associations involved in physical education for young people.
22. We demand abolition of the mercenary troops and formation of a national army.
23. We demand legal action against deliberate political lies and their dissemination by the press. In order to enable the creation of a German press, we demand that:
a. All editors and employees of newspapers published in the German language must be members of the race;
b. Non-German newspapers be required to have the express permission of the state to be published. They may not be printed in the German language;
c. Non-Germans are forbidden by law any financial interest in German publications or any influence on them and as punishment for violations the closing of such a publication as well as the immediate expulsion from the Reich of the non-German concerned. Publications which are counter to the common good are to be forbidden. We demand legal prosecution of artistic and literary forms which exert a destructive influence on our national life and the closure of events that violate the above demands.
24. We demand freedom of religion for all religious denominations within the state so long as they do not endanger its existence or oppose the moral senses of the Germanic race. The party as such advocates the standpoint of a positive Christianity without binding itself confessionally to any particular denomination. It combats the Jewish-materialistic spirit within and outside us and is convinced that a lasting recovery of our people can only come about from within, on the basis of:
Public Interest Over Self-Interest
25. For the execution of all of this we demand the formation of a strong central power in the Reich. Unconditional authority of the central parliament over the whole Reich and its organizations in general. The formation of corporative chambers and professional chambers for the execution of the laws made by the Reich within the various states of the confederation.
The leaders of the party promise to stand up for the execution of the above points ruthlessly, if necessary at the cost of their own lives.
Munich, February 24, 1920 — signed Adolf Hitler.
In 1928 an item that was causing controversy was amended:
In response to the mendacious interpretations of point 17 of the NSDAP program by our opponents, the following statement is necessary:
“Since the NSDAP stands on the principle of private property, it goes without saying that the passage ‘expropriation without compensation’ refers only to the creation of legal possibilities to expropriate land that has been acquired unlawfully or is not managed in accordance with the interests of the people, if necessary. This is therefore directed primarily against Jewish real estate speculation companies.”
Munich, April 13, 1928 — signed Adolf Hitler.
It's interesting reading in that you could see where the NASDP was headed, but they were not there yet. It's also interesting to read how much of MAGA would be comfortable with this, although they wouldn't be comfortable with all of it. The NASDP was a populist party.
At this point, I frankly don't think a lot of the MAGA rank and file, and even some of its upper ranks, would really disavow association with the Nazis all that much.
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Pancho Villa's skull was stolen by grave robbers. It's whereabouts remain unknown.
Mussolini delivered a defiant speech about the fascist program of Italianization of South Tyrol, which had an ethnic German majority.
The Italians and Germans managed to put this aside after the rise of Hitler, but had the Germans won the second World War, they certainly would have turned on Italy over this issue. As late as the 1990s, if not later, there was still Italian support for the fascist decrees on the topic.
It was a Saturday.
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Democracy returned to Germany with elections in the American zone. The newly formed Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won more local offices than any other.
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Deutsche Luft Hansa (DLH), the predecessor of Lufthansa, was formed.
It ceased operations in April, 1945, but it's personnel later reformed the company as Lufthansa in 1955.
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Mexican troops fired on demonstrators in León, Mexico, killing at least 40.
The U.S. Army lifted a ban on U.S. servicemen marrying enemy nationals, save for Germans. The lift, therefore, applied to Austrians and Italians, as well as perhaps Hungarians and Romanians.
On Corregidor twenty Japanese soldiers, who had just learned of Japan's surrender from a newspaper, surrendered themselves to a solitary Army soldier.
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