A Century of the World and Enrile
100 years ago today, the tenth anniversary of the start of WW1 was four months away. The Philippines, in the middle of its first and second republic was under American rule in the roaring 20s, the Korean Peninsula had been under Japanese rule for over a decade, and Germany’s Weimar Republic will arrest Adolf Hitler in the coming month only to release him by December. In three months J.Edgar Hoover will be appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and a month prior Vladimir Lenin died. The Summer Olympics will be held in Paris and the Chinese Zodiac was the year of the Rat. It was Valentine’s Day and Juan Ponce Enrile was born.
