NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 18 April 1924

18 APRIL 1924

The Reparations Commission decided to approve the conclusions in the Experts’ reports and to adopt the measures. The German Chancellor in a statement to a French press representative said that Germany would make her co-operation contingent on the concession of her demands for the re-establishment of her economic and administrative unity. Political prisoners would have to be pardoned.

Kiyoura Keigo, the Japanese Prime Minister, expressed regret at the decision of the United States Congress to exclude Japanese immigrants. This action he said would impair, but not break, the long-standing friendship between the two nations.

Moscow stated that it was disappointed at the speech made by Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister, saying that it was “cloaking the demands of the British bankers”.