Saturday, January 4, 2014

Saturday, 4 January 1930

Basle:  

Police raid the homes of Italian communists and anarchists living here, arresting 25 people, in advance of the train carrying Belgian Princess Marie Jose to her wedding to Crown Prince Umberto of Italy in Rome.  This is to forestall any possible attacks on the train, in view of anarchist plots uncovered last month.

Berlin:  

The economic downturn worsens: the municipal council stops construction on 30 buildings in the city due to the financial crisis.  “Savings first” has become a new slogan of the city government.

Katowice, Poland:  

A monument to Polish insurgents in the 1919-21 Silesian Uprisings is bombed and partly destroyed.  Local authorities suspect ethnic Germans unhappy with the division of Silesia between Germany and Poland after the World War.  The Silesian Uprisings were revolts by ethnic Poles in Silesia seeking to join the newly created Polish state.

The Hague:  

At the Second Reparations Conference, a demand by France for sanctions on Germany should it fail to make its war debts payments has quickly become the central topic.  France insists it should have the right to invade Germany and occupy portions of its territory if Germany fails to make its war debt payments.  Other nations, most importantly the United States, disagree.  Germany says it’s willing to allow France the right to sanctions through the League of Nations if Germany fails to pay its debts, but not directly.





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