100 Years Ago

NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 23 April 1924

23 APRIL 1924

President Coolidge, in an address to the Associated Press of America, declared that when the reparations question was settled he would favour the summoning of a world conference on the limitation of armaments and the codification of international law.

Addressing a Liberal meeting, David Lloyd George, the former Prime Minister, bitterly reproached the Socialist party for “the humiliating conditions” under which the Liberal party was expected to continue to support the Government.