February 1919

Allied statesmen hear petitions and grapple with the world’s problems in Paris. Gunmen strike against a king and prime ministers. Brutal fighting continues the former Russian Empire. Irish nationalist leader Éamon de Valera escapes from an English jail. The Spanish Flu brings a third wave of pestilence to a weary world.

1/2/1919 Czechoslovakia

3/2/1919 Éamon de Valera busts out of Lincoln Jail

3/2/1919 Carving up Turkey

6/2/1919 Emir Faisal seeks a promised kingdom

13/2/1919 Japan’s racial equality proposal causes a sensation

14/2/1919 Progress in Paris on the League of Nations, deadlock on German reparations

15/2/1919 Pogrom in Proskurov: Ukrainian Cossacks massacre Jews

19/2/1919 The gun speaks: anarchist shoots Clemenceau

20/2/1919 The gun speaks: Afghanistan’s King assassinated

21/2/1919 The gun speaks: right wing fanatic kills Bavaria’s ousted prime minister

25/2/1919 More trouble in the west Balkans

26/2/1919 Influenza: the third wave

26/2/1919 Armenia asks to become an American mandate

27/2/1919 Zionist plans for Palestine

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Woodrow Wilson reading the draft covenant of the League…