Monday, February 12, 1945. Peru enters the war.

The Treaty of Varkiza was signed in which Greek resistance agreed to disarm and relinquish control of all the territory it occupied in exchange for legal recognition, free elections, and the removal of Nazi collaborators from the armed forces and police, which seems reasonable enough.

Greek politics had been a mess for years, and would continue to be for many more years.

The Japanese executed Antonio Villa-Real, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in the Philippines.

Peru declared war on Germany and Japan.

A tornado outbreak in Mississippi and Alabama killed 45 people.

Himmler appeared on the cover of Time magazine, in an illustration depicting him as a death's head.

Last edition:

Sunday, February 11, 1945. Yalta winds up.

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Thursday, December 7, 1922. Coal, Boats, and Killings.

 

The Parliament of Northern Ireland voted unanimously to remain in the United Kingdom.  The Army of the Irish Free State severs communications with units based in Northern Ireland. Irish Parliamentarians and former members of the IRA Sean Hales of Cork and Padraig O'Maile of Mayo emerged from lunch at a hotel on Ormonde Quay in Dublin and were shot in revenge for the execution of IRA members earlier that week.  Hales was killed and O'Maile severely wounded.

The Northern Irish Parliament would govern Ulster on a home rule basis until 1972, when it was suspended due to its inability to address The Troubles.

The President's yacht was hit.

The public in Wyoming was apparently following the sensational trial of the Governor of Missippii and the results of a murder trail in Casper where the convicted assailant was a woman.