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Events relating to europe
Boris Pasternak makes his name with his third volume of poems, My Sister Life
Stalin devises the structure for a new federal state, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
Thomas Mann publishes a fragment of his Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
John Galsworthy publishes his novels about the Forsyte family as a joint collection under the title The Forsyte Saga
The Irish Free State takes stringent measures against rebel terrorism, making possession even of a pistol a capital offence
After Michael Collins is killed in an ambush, William Cosgrave and Kevin O'Higgins emerge as leaders of the Irish Free State
The League of Nations gives France and Britain mandates to govern separate areas of the German colony of Cameroon
France and Britain are given a League of Nations mandate to govern separate areas of the German colony of Togoland
American-born poet T.S. Eliot publishes The Waste Land, an extremely influential poem in five fragmented sections
Mussolini gives orders for armed squads to congregate around Rome, in preparation for a march to seize power in the capital
The Italian king Victor Emmanuel III, alarmed at the prospect of a Fascist march on Rome, asks Mussolini to form a government
A triumphant Mussolini arrives in Rome on the overnight train from Milan to take up his appointment as prime minister
Columns of blackshirts, brought into Rome for the day, parade before Mussolini and the king
The nationalist government in Turkey abolishes the sultanate and the last Ottoman emperor, Mehmed VI, goes into exile
The British Broadcasting company launches a regular broadcasting service from the Marconi 2LO studio in London
Erskine Childers is sent before a firing squad in the Irish Free State for possession of a revolver
Valéry's collection Charmes includes probably his best-known poem, 'Le Cimetière marin'
Lenin has a second stroke, putting him finally out of action in political terms
With the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the 26 counties of southern Ireland formally become the Irish Free State
William Thomas Cosgrave becomes the first prime minister of the Irish Free State
At a congress in Moscow four soviet republics (Russia, Belarus, the Ukraine and the Transcaucasian Republic) agree to unite
Benito Mussolini sets up a Fascist Grand Council as a token assembly to conceal his authoritarian rule
De Valera and the IRA lay down their arms, bringing to an end the Irish civil war
France, with Belgian support, occupies Germany's industrial heartland in the Ruhr
With Mussolini already installed as Il Duce, his party wins 65% of the votes in a general election
