NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 27 June 1924

27 JUNE 1924

Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister, denied in the House of Commons certain newspaper reports which represented that at the recent Chequers meeting with M. Herriot assurance had been given that in the event of France being attacked by Germany, Britain would again be on the side of France and Belgium. Some of the statement, he said, were particularly mischievous.

In a statement in the House of Commons on the question of an Irish Minister-Plenipotentiary at Washington, the Secretary for the Colonies said the demand of people in both countries for a Republic for Ireland would receive the same reply from the present British Government as the latter believed it would have received from either of the two Governments which had been in office since the signing of the Treaty.

A discussion of recent disputes, with particular reference to the strike on the London Underground Railways, took place in the House of Commons on a Vote for the Ministry of Labour. The Government declined to order an inquiry into the causes, and though expressing disapproval of unauthorised stoppages, held that their powers for dealing with such situations are sufficient.