100 Years Ago

28 OCTOBER 1923 The Government stated that any movement towards Cologne by separatist forces in Germany would be stopped by

27 OCTOBER 1923 France notified the United States that the country would welcome the presence of an American representative on

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