NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 15 December 1923

15 DECEMBER 1923

The German Government’s wish to enter into direct negotiations with the Powers occupying the Ruhr territory is welcomed in France as possibly pointing to a solution of the reparations problem.

Herbert Asquith invited the Liberal members of the new House of Commons to meet him at the National Liberal Club.

David Lloyd George, the former Prime Minister, referred to the possibility of a vote of no confidence in the Government when Parliament reassembled. He said that he assumed that it would be led by the Socialists as the second party of the State and he added “any attempt at a shallow cleverness to do Labour out of its chance would provoke a resentment which would astonish its perpetrators”.