Tokyo: Admiral Takarabe
Takeshi, Minister of the Navy, is given a dagger with the recommendation that
he use it to commit suicide to expiate the “crime” of his agreeing to the
London Naval Treaty. He doesn’t. In fact, he publicly refuses today an earlier
demand that he resign over the treaty.
Meanwhile, a naval officer does
commit suicide to express his bitterness and despondency over the treaty. Lt. Commander Eiji Jusakari, attached to the
naval general staff, slashes his abdomen with a sword while on a train from
Kobe to Tokyo. He dies in a hospital
where he is taken en route.
Paris: An
all-but-forgotten German-French committee discussing the return of the
Rhineland to German control announces success: they have reached full agreement
on withdrawing the last occupying French troops by June 30. Separately, French officials burn US$37
billion worth of German bonds in a symbolic gesture illustrating the
liquidation of all past reparation efforts, in view of the superseding Young
Plan.
London: The worldwide
economic depression worsens: officials announce British unemployment has
reached 2.5 million. Just last week it
was being announced at 1.7 million.
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