100 Years Ago

26 OCTOBER 1923 Stanley Baldwin, speaking in Plymouth, urged acceptance by all the Allies of President Coolidge’s Reparation Conference plan.

25 OCTOBER 1923 German issued a note to the Reparations Committee requesting that the country’s ability to repay war debts

24 OCTOBER 1923 Fierce fighting took place between Communists and the police in Hamburg. Disorder was also reported from the

23 OCTOBER 1923 Ronald McNeill, the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, speaking at Tiverton said that “there is one debt

22 OCTOBER 1923 Bavaria’s defiance of the Berlin Government in regard to the dismissal of General von Lossow led to

21 OCTOBER 1923 A Rhineland Republic was proclaimed at Aix-le-Chapelle. It was announced that Stanley Baldwin, would be making an

20 OCTOBER 1923 Questions of military and naval defence were discussed in private by the Imperial Conference. The Economic Conference

19 OCTOBER 1923 The Ruhr policy of Raymond Poincaré, the President of France, was disclosed in an interview with the

18 OCTOBER 1923 In a speech delivered in Simla, Lord Reading issued a solemn warning to any who might enter

17 OCTOBER 1923 Anderson Montague-Barlow, the Minister of Labour, gave detail in a speech in London of the Government’s proposals