15 APRIL 1925
M. Briand abandoned the task of forming a French Ministry after the refusal of the Socialists to be represented. M. Painleve, President of the Chamber, has again been invited by President Doumergue to form a Cabinet.
A memorandum, issued by the Empire Development Union, dealing with unemployment and the peril of British industry, states that if the British race is ever to recover its lost supremacy immediate and drastic action along Imperial lines must be taken by Great Britain.
At the first sitting of the new Ulster Parliament, Mr. Hugh O’Neill was elected Speaker. The State opening takes place to-day.
To a resolution moved at the Independent Labour party’s conference at Gloucester protesting against Mr. Austen Chamberlain’s refusal to submit the question of the Zinoviev letter to independent arbitration, an amendment was moved regretting that the late Foreign Secretary, Mr. MacDonald, authorised Mr. Gregory’s reply to the letter before he was completely satisfied of its authenticity. Defending Mr. MacDonald in his absence, the president of the conference, Mr. Allen, said that he did not authorise the letter. The amendment was withdrawn and the resolution carried.