Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Tuesday, 31 December 1929

Berlin:  

President Paul von Hindenberg files suit against the newspaper Der Angriff (The Attack), founded and published by nazi party leader Joseph Goebbels, for an article published two days ago entitled, “Is Hindenberg still alive?”  The article claimed that Hindenberg had not voted against the Young Plan because “he always does what his Jewish and Marxist advisers tell him to do,” and that “nobody should be under any delusions concerning him.” 

Paris:  

Authorities seize three Italian communists with explosives.  Their papers outline a plan to assassinate Italy’s delegation to the League of Nations at an upcoming meeting in Geneva.

London:  

Not four weeks after Great Britain restored diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union (see Dec. 4), a New Year’s message from the Communist International (Comintern) to workers in England is causing a stir.  The message appears in The Daily Worker, a new communist newspaper in England, describing itself as “a new and powerful weapon in the hands of the British working class.”  This doesn’t sit well with the British government, which remains wary of communist agitation within its borders. 





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