1922
U.S. Senators vote to abandon the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, which provides severe penalties and fines for "any state or municipal officer" convicted of negligence in affording protection to individuals in custody who are attacked by a mob bent on lynching, torture, or physical intimidation. The Bill also provided for compensation to the families of victims.
1922 Harlem Shadows is published in New York by Claude McKay.
1922
W.A. Harriman & Co. opens its European headquarters in Berlin with the aid of the Hamburg-based M.M. Warburg & Co. Government investigators later said it was during this time that Harriman first became acquainted with the German industrialist, Fritz Thyssen. Harriman subsequently agreed to set up a bank for Thyssen (Union Banking Corporation) in New York City. The following year, Thyssen would become one of Hitler's largest financial backers.
1922
A deadlocked Vatican conclave chooses Achille Ratti as pope (Pope Pius XI) on the eve of Mussolini's March on Rome. Facing a choice between the right and the left, the Vatican decides that fascism seems the lesser of two evils.
1922
Detlef Schmude, one of Jorg Lanz von Liebenfel's most ardent
supporters in Germany and the Prior of Hollenberg begins publishing a second
Ostara series. The first issue "Die Ostara und das Reich der Blonden"
reiterates the "Ario-Christian" canon with numerous quotes from Lanz: "racial
history is the key to the understanding of politics," and "all
ugliness and evil stems from interbreeding." (Roots)
1922
Karl von Habsburg, the deposed emperor of Austria,dies in
exile.
1922
Zinoviev allies himself with Stalin and Lev Kamenev against
Trotsky but disagrees ideologically with Stalin and is soon politically
outflanked.
1922
Lenin renames the Cheka to soften its image. It now becomes the
GPU (General Political Administration).
1922
Stalin becomes general secretary of the party's Central
Committee. He now controls appointments, set agendas, and transfers thousands
of party officials from post to post at will.
1922
Lenin writes a secret letter to Stalin, designating Armand Hammer as their official "path" to the resources of American capitalism. Hammer, the son of a Russian immigrant and founder of the American Communist Party, first found riches and notoriety as a businessman in the fledgling Soviet Union, where he used his operations to help launder money for the communist government. (Epstein)
1922
Mahatma Gandhi is imprisoned for his civil disobedience in India.
1922
Joseph Goebbels joins the Nazi Party, while trying to break into Journalism and the literary world.
1922
Between 1922 and 1933, there are 200 instances of grave desecrations in Jewish cemeteries at Nuremberg alone. (Atlas)
1922 January 12
French Premier Briand resigns and is succeeded by Raymond Poincaré.
1922 January 29
The first public meeting of the National Socialist party is held in Munich.
1922 February
Walter Riehl's Austrian Nazi party (DNSAP) holds its first large rally in Vienna. Adolf Hitler is one of the main speakers. (Forgotten Nazis)
1922 February
The United States, Britain, Japan, France and Italy sign the Five Power Naval Armaments Treaty, which is hailed as the most successful disarmament pact in history. It provides for a 10-year hiatus in building warships of more than 10,000 tons and establishes a ratio of these ships each signatory could have.
1922 March
Minister of State Schweyer tells the Bavarian Assembly, "...The expulsion of Hitler is being considered."
1922 March 22
Israeli statesman, soldier and prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is born at Jerusalem in Palestine (now in Israel). He will serve as prime minister of Israel from 1974 to 1977 and from 1992 until his assassination in November 1995.
1922 March 28
Reich Chancellor Wirth denounces the Reparations Commission to the Reichstag, saying it is impossible to meet the demand of a tax levy of 60,000,000 marks before May 31.
1922 April 3
The General staffs of Germany and Russia sign a military agreement in Berlin.
1922 April 6
The Soviet delegation headed by Grigori Chicherin arrives in Genoa for a meeting with British, French, American Italian and German delegations.
1922 April 8
General Georg A.S. von Falkenhayn, former chief of the German general staff dies.
1922 April 10
The Genoa Conference begins in Italy. Representatives of 34 nations convene to attempt the reconstruction of European finance and commerce. It is the first conference after World War I in which Germany and the Soviet Union are accepted on a par with other nations. The USSR, despite its repudiation of the czarist national debt, has offered to discuss the question at an international assembly. This offer marks the first Soviet attempt to enter the European diplomatic circle after the Russian Revolution.
