100 Years Ago

18 JUNE 1923 Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, said in a speech made in Oxford that civilisation was cracking and

16 JUNE 1923 A special committee of the Labour Party which was looking into prohibition said that there was no

15 JUNE 1923 The Government defended in the House of Commons the decision of the Viceroy to India who had

14 JUNE 1923 Earl Birkenhead said in the House of Lords that socialism was growing in strength and raised the

13 JUNE 1923 Henri Jaspar, the Belgian Foreign Minister, said that his Government were in solidarity with France on the

12 JUNE 1923 The Government said that the German note on reparations payments would be discussed within Cabinet, although it

11 JUNE 1923 The death of Princess Helena of the United Kingdom was confirmed. She was the daughter of Queen

9 JUNE 1923 Speaking to the Chatham and Canning clubs in London, the Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin spoke of the

8 JUNE 1923 Germany confirmed to the Allies that the country accepted the need to pay war reparations and said

7 JUNE 1923 The Restoration of Order in Ireland (Indemnity Bill) and the Rent Restrictions Bill passed their third reading