December 1924
The following events occurred in December 1924:
- France rounded up over 300 communists in raids on their headquarters, including some 70 of foreign nationality that were to be deported. "There are too many foreign communists in France who forget their duty to the country that has given them asylum", Prime Minister Édouard Herriot told the Chamber of Deputies. "They are indulging in political demonstrations, and we will not tolerate it, we will not let them meddle in our political life. If we meet with resistance we will break it, and we will deport as many as necessary."[9]
- Born: Wally Cox, comedian and actor, in Detroit, Michigan (d. 1973)
- Died: Gene Stratton-Porter, 61, American author, screenwriter and naturalist
- In a letter to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, Winston Churchill opined that Singapore's defences did not need to be completed for another fifteen to twenty years, writing, "I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. Japan is at the other end of the world. She cannot menace our vital security in any way."[16][17]
- Died: Friedrich Trendelenburg, 80, German surgeon
- The Supreme Court of Hungary confiscated the property of former President Mihály Károlyi for high treason. Károlyi was convicted of negotiating with Italy in 1915 to keep the Italians out of the war in exchange for Austrian territory, and for allowing a communist revolution to happen in 1919 by deserting his position.[18]
- Born: Loudon Wainwright, Jr., American writer (d. 1988)
- Pope Pius XI made his first statement against communism after an abandoned pontifical relief mission returned from Russia. He said the Vatican would continue to make efforts to help needy Russians, but "nobody certainly can have thought by our efforts on behalf of the Russian people we intended in any way to lend our support to a system of government which we are so far from approving."[20]
- Born: Cicely Tyson, American actress
- 100 were wounded in rioting between communists and police in Berlin. About 50,000 communists turned into a crushing mob when they gathered to greet Erich Mühsam upon his release from prison in the same general amnesty that freed Hitler.[25]
- Born: Dankwart Rustow, professor of political science and sociology, in Berlin (d. 1996)
- An interallied military committee headed by Ferdinand Foch decided that troops would not withdraw from the Cologne area on January 10, 1925, as specified in the Treaty of Versailles, because Germany had not fulfilled its disarmanent provisions. Angry articles in the German press called accused the Allies of breaking the Dawes Pact.[26]
- A post-season college football bowl game known as the Los Angeles Christmas Festival was played in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The USC Trojans defeated the Missouri Tigers, 20-7.
- The Broadway Theatre opened in midtown-Manhattan, New York City.
- Born: Moktar Ould Daddah, President of Mauritania, in Boutilimit, French West Africa (d. 2003); Rod Serling, screenwriter, playwright, television producer and narrator, in Syracuse, New York (d. 1975); Atal Bihari Vajpayee, 11th Prime Minister of India, in Gwalior State
- A general election was conducted in Honduras. Miguel Paz Barahona of the conservative National Party was elected President virtually unopposed, as liberals boycotted the election.[37]
- With Franco-German tensions high over the issue of the occupation of Cologne, a sensational report was published in Paris claiming that German scientists had secretly developed a new and devastating poison gas that could annihilate a whole city in a matter of hours.[38]
- Mussolini called an unexpected cabinet meeting and requested a show of support from all present, which he received from a majority.[35] The two Liberal ministers in Mussolini's cabinet were convinced to withdraw their resignations.[40]
- German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann told international media that that peace in Europe and fulfillment of the Dawes Plan were in danger unless a compromise was reached on the Cologne evacuation issue.[41]
- Thirty-three Blackshirt consuls arrived unnanounced in Mussolini's office, demanding that Mussolini crush the opposition or they would do so without him.[35]
- Italian police were ordered to search the houses of prominent opposition leaders over allegations that enemies of the government had stockpiled vast stores of arms. Issues of opposition newspapers in several Italian cities were seized, with Florence becoming especially violent as thousands of Blackshirts converged on the city and ransacked several buildings, including the printing plant of an opposition newspaper which was set on fire.[42]
- Three of four brothers in the Barmat family of merchants were arrested as the industrial corruption scandal known as the Barmat scandal broke in Germany. One report claimed that President Friedrich Ebert's son "Fritz" was connected to the scandal.[43][44]
- Born: Frank J. Kelley, 50th Michigan Attorney General, in Detroit, Michigan; Taylor Mead, writer, actor and performer, in Grosse Point, Michigan (d. 2013)
- Died: Sir Samuel William Knaggs, 68, British civil servant
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