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  1911 sixpenny novel a prequel to Harrison Act, Hague Convention, WW1, Versailles treaty and King Kong. FROM THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNMENT HISTORIAN ( link ) Traffic in women and children , Armenians: Numbers were murdered by savage Kurds against whom the Turkish soldiery afforded no protection. Little girls of nine or ten were sold to Kurdish brigands for a few piastres, and women were promiscuously violated. At Sivas an instance was related of a teacher in the Sivas Teachers’ College, a gentle, refined Armenian girl, speaking English, knowing music, attractive by the standards of any land, who was given in enforced marriage to the Beg of a neighboring Kurdish village, a filthy ragged ruffian three times her age, with whom she still has to live, and by whom she has borne a child. In the orphanage there maintained under American Relief auspices, there were one hundred and fifty “brides”, being girls, many of them of tender age, who had been living as wives in Moslem homes, and had ...

  Yes there was a Crash and Depression in 1921 just as in 1914 when the Harrison Act, Income Tax and WW1 obtruded upon the nation's notice, and in 1907 when prohibition mania went viral. President Woodrow Wilson , himself a temperance man, vetoed the Volstead Act instituting fines, imprisonments, asset-forfeiture confiscations, padlocking and gunplay with live ammo in the War against Beer and the Demon Rum. Congress, by then a nest of Republican National Socialist and Progressive politicians, overrode the veto. The Senate proceeded to step on Wilson's beloved Treaty of Versailles and Charter of the League of Nations--both of which delegated substance prohibition powers to the League in their Articles 23. Senator Lodge wisely wrote: ( link ) 4. The United States reserves to itself exclusively the right to decide what questions are within its domestic jurisdiction and declares that all domestic and political questions relating wholly or in part to its internal affairs, including ...

  Less than a week after Germany signed the Drug Limitation Convention, financial collapse was everywhere and Hitler got front page billing in a New York daily paper . ( link ).  Nor was this a one-off fluke . Germany's anti-Versailles Treaty Führer made p2 of a Connecticut daily that same day.( link ) NOT shown were the real culprits: President Herbert Hoover, Narcotics Commissioner Harry Anslinger, Rep. Hamilton Fish Jr. and the League of Nations Opium Advisory Committee . Also blameworthy were ordinary citizens, duped into believing that hemp and coca leaves can produce addiction, that banning production and trade causes economic stability, and that even though poppy opiates can cause addiction, pointing loaded guns at plant-using people is reasonable, non-violent and conducive to peace, prosperity and safety.  None of these individuals caused the German collapse of July 1931. The cause of Hitler's sudden success  was clearly spelled out in black and white in thre...