INTER-RACIAL LEAGUE "INDICTS" ARMS LIMITATION CONFERENCE
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On January 3, 1922, "the conference on limitation of armament was 'indicted'...by a grand jury in the Inter-racial League's 'court of public sessions'."
The indictment, signed by Charles Edward Russell*, was presented on the grounds that the conference "has betrayed the people of the world and frustrated their hopes (for world peace)."
The Evening Star reports...
"The charges...were based on (the Conference's) handling of the cases of China, India, Korea, the eastern republic, Persia, the Philippines..."
The indictment states that the conference "has done nothing to lessen...the chances of war."
*Charles Edward Russell (1860-1941) was born in Davenport, Iowa & became a muckraking journalist, newspaper editor and political activist. CER won the 1928 Pulitzer Prize for Biography & was co-founder of the NAACP.
SOURCE
"Inter-Racial 'Jury' 'Indicts' Limitation of Arms Conference," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., January 3, 1922, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
