14 JUNE 1924
Gaston Doumergue, President of the Senate, was elected President of the French Republic.
General Dawes was confirmed as the Republican candidate for the Vice-President of the United States.
Stanley Baldwin, the former Prime Minister, addressing the Association of Conservative Clubs in London, pleaded for the spread of Unionist doctrines.
13 JUNE 1924
President Coolidge was nominated by the Republican Convention as candidate for the Presidency at the election in Autumn.
The election to the Presidency of the French Republic was scheduled to take place at the Palace of Versailles.
At the meeting of the Council of the League of Nations at Geneva, questions relating to Russian, Greek and Armenian refugees were considered, and it was decided after discussion to adopt the proposal of the High Commissioner that the International Labour Office should deal with the future settlement of refugees.
The appointment of Colonel William Robert Campion as Governor of Western Australia, in succession to Sir Franci Newdegate, created a vacancy in the representation of the Lewes Division of Sussex in Parliament.
12 JUNE 1924
Lord Ashfield, on behalf of the London Underground railway companies, issued a warning to the strikers that unless they reported for duty within one day then it would be assumed that they had left the service.
A letter formally announcing his resignation of the Presidency of the French Republic was sent by Alexandre Millerand to the Senate and Chamber. In a message to French citizens, he described the action of his opponents as a “fatal precedent” and stated that he sought to resume the struggle for the liberty of the French Republic.
By 36 votes to 25 votes, the Iraq Constituency Assembly ratified the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty.
11 JUNE 1924
Following a hostile vote against the new French Government led by Frédéric François-Marsal, President Alexandre Millerand announced his resignation.
The Presbyterian General Assembly of Canada voted by an overwhelming majority in favour of the Bill providing for the union of the Presbyterian, Methodist and Congregational churches in Canada.
Following a rumour that the Sikhs intended to sacrifice 150 children, there were riotous scenes in Calcutta. Six deaths were reported, together with the burning in the streets of taxi-cabs belonging to Sikh drivers, many of whom sought police protection.
DC Thomson, the son of an Edinburgh doctor, was adopted as the prospective Liberal candidate for South Edinburgh.
10 JUNE 1924
The Republican National Convention for the nomination of Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates opened at Cleveland, Ohio.
Fierce fighting took place between Government forces and the insurgents in Albania.
More tube drivers returned to work and the strike’s impact started to diminish.
9 JUNE 1924
A Paris telegram announced that Frédéric François-Marsal, a member of the Poincare administration, had undertaken to form a Ministry.
Benito Mussolini, the Prime Minister of Italy, speaking in the Chamber where he won a vote of confidence, said that Europe was suffering from potential disturbances that might provoke crises.
The Constituent Assembly of Iraq, meeting at Baghdad, refused to ratify the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty.
8 JUNE 1924
The tube strike continued, despite the National Union of Railwaymen refusing to recognise the dispute. The tube service in London was now dependant on the men who did turn up to work, with around 6,200 on strike.
The Japanese cabinet resigned.
7 JUNE 1924
It was feared that the situation with the London tube strike was going to worsen.
The question of common action by Britain and the Dominions in questions of foreign policy was discussed in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister and David Lloyd George taking part.
Vivian Phillipps, speaking in Oxford, referred to the “suicidal tactics” of the Labour Party in splitting the progressive vote which, if continued, would establish fully in the saddle the forces of Protection and reaction.
The Reichstag adopted, by 247 votes to 183, a motion in support of the German Government’s declaration that the Expert’s report is a suitable basis for a speedy solution of the Reparations question.
6 JUNE 1924
The threat of an immediate national railway stoppage was removed by the decision of the Locomotive Society to take a ballot of their members in the event of the companies’ reply to their demands being regarded as unfavourable. The unofficial strike of railway shopmen on the London tubes and GWR system was though developing.
Captain RC Bourne won the Oxford City Parliamentary by-election for the Unionists by a majority of 1,842 over Commander CB Fry, the Liberal candidate.
Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister, announced in the House of Commons that Mr Justice Feetham, a member of the Supreme Court of South Africa, had agreed to act at Chairman of the Irish Boundary Commission.
5 JUNE 1924
Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister, stated in the House of Commons that he would be in a position to announce the name of the Chairman of the Irish Boundary Commission today. The Government would ask the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council to advise them as to their legal and constitutional power to constitute the Commission. The Lord Chancellor was anxious to include on the Privy Council Tribunal distinguished Dominion Judges. Australia’s Chief Justice had consented to serve.
Further debate took place in the House of Commons on the Government’s housing proposals. Neville Chamberlain, the Minister of Health in the previous Government, replied to Mr Wheatley’s speech in the House on Tuesday.
In the House of Lords, attention was called to the performance by bucking horses at Wembley, and the hope was expressed on behalf of the Government that proper facilities would be afforded to inspectors of the RSPCA for examination, both with regards to the tests and the animals themselves.
Paul Painlevé was elected President of the French Chamber of Deputies.
Leon Trotsky, in a speech at Podolsk, stated that Russia needed the Straits and Constantinople.