100 Years Ago

17 NOVEMBER 1923 The situation in Europe, the peace with Turkey, the Imperial Conference, the position of agriculture and unemployment

16 NOVEMBER 1923 The House of Commons debated Ramsay MacDonald’s vote of censure on the Government. No settlement was reached

15 NOVEMBER 1923 Sir Robert Sanders announced the Government’s agricultural policy which included the subsidy of £1 an acre on

14 NOVEMBER 1923 The Prime Minister announced that he had advised the Crown to dissolve Parliament on Friday with a

13 NOVEMBER 1923 The media reported that it was expected that Parliament would be dissolved. The Earl of Balfour described

12 November 1923 Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States, said that America’s policy of “selfish isolation”  after

11 NOVEMBER 1923 It was reported that Adolf Hitler, who had taken part in the Bavarian coup, had escaped the

10 NOVEMBER 1923 A revolt took place in Bavaria led by Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialists, with the

9 NOVEMBER 1923 The French Ambassador in Berlin was instructed to call the German Government’s attention to the serious concern

8 NOVEMBER 1923 Neville Chamberlain, defending the Government’s fiscal policy during a speech in Preston, said that he did not