April 1919

In Paris the Allies agree Germany’s future frontiers with France and Poland, but Italy’s leaders walk out as Wilson and the others refuse to accede to their Adriatic demands. Communist revolutionaries in central Europe begin to suffer setbacks. British troops massacre 1,500 Indians in Amritsar. Wilson betrays China so that Japan drops its racial equality proposal.

1/4/1919 Agreement on Danzig and the Poland’s corridor to thesea

2/4/1919 De Valera’s new government and Ireland’s first womanminister

6/4/1919 The red tide sweeps intoBavaria

7/4/1919 Allenby tries to conciliate Egypt, ordering the release of nationalistleaders

10/4/1919 Glimmers of justice for the Armenians as the butcher of Yozgat goes to thegallows

11/4/1919 Wilson blocks Japan’s racial equalityproposal
13/4/1919 Bloodbath in Amritsar as the British shoot 1,500Indians

13/4/1919 Palm Sunday in Munich: a failed attempt to crush the Bavarian Soviet Republic pushes itleftwards

13/4/1919 Allied agreement on Germany’s westernfrontiers

15/4/1919 The Limerick Soviet: dawn of…