29 JANUARY 1925
At a reception given by Viscountess Grey in London, the Prime Minister, speaking on the League of Nations, said he had never been influenced by what public speakers said on any side in politics, and he would not be diverted from his course by any remarks that might be made in any party on the subject of the League of Nations.
Winston Churchill, speaking at Chingford, said they must endeavour to practise good housekeeping in their national affairs, but after three years of political confusion it would take a long time to get the expenditure of the country into a normal condition.
In a letter to the recently inaugurated economic supplement of the Temps, the object of which is to foster French trade, but particularly trade with the British Empire, Mr Churchill welcomes the new journalistic venture in the interests of a more facile solution of the many thorny economic problems that still confront the world and impede the restoration of the exchanges.
A memorial tablet to “one million dead of the British Empire who fell in the Great War” was unveiled in Le Mans Cathedral by General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien.
In connection with the investigation into the murder of the Sirdar, further arrests have been made, including that of Mahmoud Ismail, an official at the Egyptian Ministry of Pious Foundations, and the rearrest of Dr Chafik Mansur, a notorious agitator, who was released in December, evidence implicating him not being forthcoming then, and is now a Wafd candidate for a Cairo constituency.
An influential Indian deputation which waited upon the Viceroy urged the immediate necessity of obtaining the Union Government’s assent to Mr Thomas’s Pietermaritzburg suggestion of a conference to re-examine the Indian question in South Africa in a spirit of tolerance and to find a solution.