Tag: 100 Years Ago

4 NOVEMBER 1923

It was reported that there had been a plot to assassinate David Lloyd George, the former Prime Minister.

The body of Andrew Bonar Law, the former Prime Minister, was cremated at Golder’s Green in London.

3 NOVEMBER 1923

Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, gave a speech in Manchester giving further details on safeguarding the home market, combating unemployment and ensuring cheaper supplies of raw material.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking in Cardiff, referred to the policy of protection and said what was intended was a general tariff on imported manufactured goods.

It was announced in the German press that the Social Democrats had decided to withdraw from the Reich coalition Government.

2 NOVEMBER 1923

Speaking in Nevers, Raymond Poincaré, the French Prime Minister, said that now wasn’t the time to change their line of action with regards to the German reparations situation.

At a meeting of the Imperial Economic Conference, resolutions were passed with regard to the immunity of State enterprises from taxation, commercial facilities, reciprocal enforcement of judgements, including arbitration awards and patents.

Two more cases of foot and mouth disease were reported in Renfrewshire.

1 NOVEMBER 1923

It was announced that the funeral of Andrew Bonar Law, the former Prime Minister, would take place at Westminster Abbey.

The Unionist candidates in the by-elections of the Yeovil Division of Somerset and the Rutland and Stamford Division of Lincolnshire were returned with sizeable majorities.

Following a deputation of doctors on the question of panel fees, the Minister of Health has submitted a new offer for a settlement of the doctors’ claims.

31 OCTOBER 1923

The death of former Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law was announced.

Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, said that the changes he was making to tackle with the problem of unemployment were essential. He added that the dream of universal free trade was but a dream and could not be dreamed today.

It was rumoured in the German press that the developments in Saxony would likely lead to the fall of the Stresmann Cabinet.

30 OCTOBER 1923

The British Cabinet decided to wait for the views of the United States following the speech made by the French Prime Minister before they took any fresh action on a Conference on Reparations.

It was announced that the health of former Andrew Bonar Law had worsened.

The Mining Association received notice of the new demands of the Executive of the Miners’ Federation in regard to wages and profits in the coal industry.

29 OCTOBER 1923

Raymond Poincaré, the French Prime Minister, expressed his willingness to accept the appointment by the Reparations Commission of a Committee of Experts to examine Germany’s capacity for payment. He declared that France would not agree to a reduction of the German debt fixed in May 1921.

Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, was elected to the Lord Rectorship of Edinburgh University. The students indulged in their traditional battle for the steps in the old quadrangle.

An outbreak of foot and mouth disease at a piggery near Paisley was announced.

28 OCTOBER 1923

The Government stated that any movement towards Cologne by separatist forces in Germany would be stopped by the British military.

Viscount Curzon was fined 20 shillings at Croydon County Court for failing to have a rear light on his car.

27 OCTOBER 1923

France notified the United States that the country would welcome the presence of an American representative on a Committee of experts to investigate Germany’s capacity to pay, but that such Committee must be appointed by, and be subordinate to, the Reparation Commission.

It was announced that an Expert Committee would be set up by the Imperial Economic Conference to consider the whole question of Empire currency, the main complaint in regard to which relates the matter of bank charges.

Frank B Kellogg, ex-Senator for Minnesota, has been selected as the United State Ambassador to Great Britain.

The position of South of Ireland loyalists, agricultural policy, old age pensions and Trade Union ballots were matters discussed at the concluding session of the unionist party conference in Plymouth.

26 OCTOBER 1923

Stanley Baldwin, speaking in Plymouth, urged acceptance by all the Allies of President Coolidge’s Reparation Conference plan. He declared that he would battle against unemployment as one of the greatest perils of the realm and observed that the only way to fight it was by protecting home markets.

Lord Derby, speaking in Sheffield, said that now was the time for France to show statesmanship and to co-operate with other nations in settling the Reparations problem.

General Smuts, speaking at the League of Nations Union dinner in London, spoke on the prospects of the League in establishing a new world order out of present chaos.