NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 23 January 1923

23 JANUARY 1923

Ramsay MacDonald, the Leader of the Opposition, said to an audience of over 2,500 people in Aberdeen that the French were nervous of German strength. He argued that this caused the problem that when the German economy started to grow that the French would want to limit that expansion in fear of the potential military rearmament. MacDonald also called for the allied nations to support the League of Nations to ensure that all nations across Europe would start the process of becoming disarmed.

After some localised strike action amongst German workers in the French occupied Ruhr Valley, a large scale strike action began in the region.

Marius Plateau, the editor of the French journal Action Française, was assassinated by Germaine Berton in Paris.