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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1919
Page
2
Edward W. Pickard surveys European diplomacy after the Versailles treaty draft, German reaction, and Italian politics, noting a renewed U.S. cross-border action against Villa forces with Juarez under siege and El Paso casualties as American troops pursue Villistas.
Reports from the postwar period describe Scheidemann’s fall and Gustav Noske’s proposed headship of a new German government. Allies marshal invasion fears, while domestic factions debate signing the treaty. Ottoman dismemberment and Austrian objections color the tense diplomatic landscape.
The Hungarian Soviet Congress led by Bela Kun calls on the French workers to aid Hungary and Russia as Hungarian troops stall against Czech and Romanian forces. Reports say White Guards near Petrograd destroy a key fort across Kronstadt Bay, while Kholsheviki prepare evacuation of Petrograd.
Senator Knox leads debate on separating the peace treaty from the League of Nations covenant. He characterizes the covenant as destructive to human progress and liberty, criticizing Article 10 for freezing boundaries set by the peace treaty. Senator McCumber of North Dakota is also mentioned.
Shrapnel and cross river fighting near the Villa line prompts American troop redeployments at threatened points. Mexican authorities insist the incident is not an invasion, while Pancho Villa’s potential reaction remains uncertain amid ongoing political debate in the United States. Simultaneously news arrives of Alcock and Brown’s nonstop transatlantic flight, completing 1800 miles in 16 hours 12 minutes despite fog and rain.
The Senate rejected a modification of wartime prohibition to allow beer and light wines from July 1 until national prohibition starts next January. A 55 to 1 vote defeated Senator Phelan’s rider attached to the agricultural appropriation bill. Only President Wilson’s action remains as the wets’ last hope.
The A F L debated Irish policy favoring the Pree Trish and opposed radical labor groups by defeating resolutions on initiative and referendum and on Soviet Russia recognition. It rejected a July 4 general strike in support of Tom Mooney and urged President Burleson's removal over his labor policy.
A historic statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I at the Metz cathedral once placed by him as ruler now bears a placard reading Sic transit gloria mundi, the Latin phrase meaning thus passes the glory of the world, reflecting Abdication era sentiment.
A compact literary reflection on memorable flowers in fiction. The piece mentions mignonette in Anna Karenina, camellias of a certain lady, jasmine in Paris opera, the red rose in The Complete Life of John Hopkins, Rappacini's Daughter, and Ophelia, noting how these floral images linger in readers’ memory.
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