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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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