Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:18:49 -0700 From: "David Brown, Recollection" <recall-AT-eskimo.com> Subject: Daily Bleed: 6/22 BENJAMIN TUCKER Daily Bleed in full, 50 of 'em, http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0622.htm Excerpts & updates, NATIONAL FINK DAY: Celebrated in Fink, Texass. 1611 -- Henry Hudson & son set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers -- to keep them at bay. 1898 -- Erich Maria Remarque lives (1898-1970), Westphalia, Germany. Novelist, became famous with his pacifist novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, the most representative novel of World War I. Narrated in first person in a cool style, a contrast to patriotic rhetoric... His books were banned in the 1930s by the Nazis. WWI in literature, in our growing list,: Jaroslav Hašek: The Good Soldier Schweik R.H. Mottram: The Spanish Farm Trilogy Ford Madox Ford: Paradise's End Arnold Zweig: The Case of Sergeant Grisha Richard Aldington: Death of a Hero Robert Graves: Good-bye to All That Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms Siegfried Sassoon: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer Henry Williamson: The Patriot's Progress Frederick Manning: The Middle Parts of Fortune John Don Passos: Three Soldiers e.e. cumming: The Enormous Room Henri Barbusse: Under Fire Dalton Trumbo: Johnny got His Gun Humphrey Cobb: Paths of Glory Celine: Journey to the End of Night 1898 -- US, always willing to lend a beneficent & helpful hand for the cause of freedom, intervenes in the war of Independence of Cuba. General William Shafter & his troops disembark in Daiquirí. http://www.patriagrande.net/uruguay/eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/18760621.htm http://www.azstarnet.com/~rovedo/mph2a.html 1907 -- First appearance of the Chinese weekly, Hsin Shih-chi (The New Century). The young ardent Chinese anarchists Li, Chang, Ch'u & Wu began the paper to espouse their creed. For three years, this journal championed the causes of anarchism & revolution, reaching Chinese students & intellectuals in all parts of the world. 1913 -- Amy Lowell gives an "Imagist" dinner party attended by Ford Madox Ford, among others, who says he has no idea what the word means & suspects no one else does either. 1920 -- Italy: Following an immense open air meeting in Milan, supporting the local striking railwaymen, people returning home are fired upon & assaulted by gendarmes, aided by nationalists. Five young workers are shot dead & many wounded. Errico Malatesta, one of the speakers, was (as he wrote) "suddenly confronted by a dispersing crowd, heard the hissing sound of bullets & took under a doorway. What ought he to have done? Get killed to give pleasure to these gentlemen? ... " 1935 -- Rene Crevel kills himself. Essayist, novelist, poet, acclaimed by André Breton, Ezra Pound & Salvador Dali. http://www.sunmoon.com/lit_lives2/crevel.html 1937 -- Spain: Between June 22-24, Andrés Nin is kidnapped & murdered by the Soviet secret police who are on a campaign to destroy Republican forces they cannot control. http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/RexrothRequiem.htm 1939 -- American individualist anarchist Benjamin Tucker (1854-1939) dies, in Monaco. http://www.zetetics.com/mac/tir1.htm 1969 -- In Hot Water?: The Cuyahoga River catches fire just downstream from Cleveland Ohio & burns for 20 minutes, damages two railroad bridges. In a cemetery in Hartscombe, England (year not stated): On the 22nd of June — Jonathan Fiddle — Went out of tune. 1978 -- Urban Legend: Pluto's moon Charon is today discovered by James Christy. In truth, Pluto was first discovered by Walt Disney August 18, 1930, in 'The Chain Gang'. 1998 -- Pierre Martin (1912-1998) dies. Pacifist, writer & libertarian. Despite the support of people such as Jean Giono, was imprisoned as a CO in Clairvaux, which was taken over by the Nazi's during the rout of 1940. In 1948, Martin was responsible for a building peace site in Kabylie, where he met Albert Camus. In 1960 during French atomic bomb tests in the Algerian Sahara, he organized a caravan of trucks full of protestors, as one of many attempts to alert & win over public opinion. In June 1962, he assisted Louis Lecoin in a hunger strike to win government recognition for conscientious objectors. Martin also supported the peasants of Larzac in their fight against the army. He organized the "Ligue d'Action Pacifiste" with Louis Simon, & wrote two autobiographical books: Candide face au Moloch & Dans les tranchées de la paix en Kabylie. 2000 -- US: Seattle historian Murray Morgan (1916-2000) dies. Best known for his book, Skid Road: An Informal History. http://www.historylink.org/output.CFM?file_ID=2513 O, gentlemen, the time of life is short!... & if we live, we live to tread on kings. — Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/WeAre.jpg ----AT-nti-ShortLife, -AT-nti-ReTread 1944-2144
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