100 Years Ago

27 AUGUST 1923 Raymond Poincaré, the Prime Minister of France, stated in a speech at the unveiling of a war

25 AUGUST 1923 Gustav Stresemann, the new Chancellor of Germany, welcomed the French Government’s statement that it had no territorial

24 AUGUST 1923 Although there was no public agreement between the French and British Governments on the matter of the

23 AUGUST 1923 The French Government published their response to the British note on war reparations and the occupation of

22 AUGUST 1923 The French Government said that they intended to issue their response to the British note on reparations

21 AUGUST 1923 The Republican party in Ireland put forward 85 candidates for 153 seats. The tidal wave off the

20 AUGUST 1923 Austen Chamberlain, speaking at an event in Birmingham on reparations, said that the Entente was hanging on

18 AUGUST 1923 Serious labour shortages were announced in the Ruhr Valley and a number of police conflicts with communists

17 AUGUST 1923 The French position on the British note on war reparations softened and there was a clearer understanding

16 AUGUST 1923 Jan Smuts, the Prime Minister of South Africa, speaking at a Congress of the South African Party,