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1923

Treaty of Lausanne

1923

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Turkey recovers full sovereign rights over all its territory.

1923N

By Frank Reynolds, 'Punch', January 10, 1923

October 1922, Lloyd George resigns as British Prime Minister

>1923E

By Strube, 'The Daily Express', January 29, 1923

1923A

By Raven Hill, 'Punch', January 31, 1923

Egypt 1922 - Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon discover the tomb of the
Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun.

1923S

By Bernard Partridge, 'Punch', January 31, 1923

'The convention concerning the exchange of Greek and Turkish populations' resulted in
the compulsary exodus of approximately 2 million people.

Greece and Turkey agree to an exchange of minorities.

1923U

By Strube, 'The Daily Express', February 1, 1923

Second Lausanne Conference

1923B

By Strube, 'The Daily Express', February 3, 1932

1923P

By Bernard Partridge, 'Punch', February 14, 1923

1923R

By Victor Hicks, 'The Bystander', 1923

1923I

By Strube, 'The Daily Express', February 19, 1923

1923T

By Raven Hill, 'Punch', February 21, 1923

1923G

By Strube, 'The Daily Express', March 1, 1923

1923D

By Bruce Bairnsfather, 'The Bystander', March 14, 1923

Captain Bruce Bairnsfather was the most famous cartoonist of World War One.

1923H

By Strube, 'The Daily Express', March 17, 1923

1923O

By Bruce Barnsfather, 'The Bystander', March 21, 1923

Bairnsfather may well have been right about 'few' Zionists arriving in Palestine from
Great Britain in 1923. But they came by the thousands from Eastern Europe.

1923Z

By Ravin Hill, 'Punch', March 28, 1923

'Kemal about to take Curzon to the cleaners'.

1923L

From 'Punch', April 4, 1923

1923F

By Leo Cheney, 'The Passing Show', April 7, 1923

1923J

From 'Punch', April 25, 1923

Robert S. Hichens, British writer (1864 - 1950) had a great love and facination with Egypt.
Among his many novels were 'The Garden of Allah' (1904) and 'The Paradine Case' (1933).
Both were made into movies.

1923W

By Alfred Leeth, 'The Bystander', July 18, 1923

1923X

From 'The Dayton News', 'The Bystander', July 1923

1923Y

By Charles Graves, 'The Passing Show', August 1, 1923

1923Q

By Strube, 'The Daily Express', September 7, 1923

Introducing Europes first Fascist Dictator. Italian troops occupy the Greek island of Corfu.

1923AA

by Partridge, 'Punch', December 16, 1923

Turkey claimes the Province of Mosul in Iraq

1923AA

By Derso and Kelén Lausanne, 1923

Young Turk takes on Old Man Europe

events '23

Irish Civil War

Via Dolorosa

By Shemus, 'The Freeman's Journal', 1923, Ireland

Caption: Ireland's Via Dolorosa

Summary: Depicts a woman [Hibernia, a representation of Ireland], prostrate with grief following the death of Michael Collins. She is hugginga broken column (a traditional symbol for a life cut short) with the name "Michael Collins" on it; in the background other broken columns are featured with the names of Arthur Griffith, Robert Emmett, [Thomas] Davis, [Charles Stewart] Parnell, Daniel O'Connell and Owen Roe O'Neill on them.

cinema 23

Safety Last!

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The Covered Wagon

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