NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 18 June 1923

18 JUNE 1923

Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, said in a speech made in Oxford that civilisation was cracking and the whole world was looking at the British Empire and the United States for salvation.

The situation in Bulgaria looked unstable following a coup which had led to the execution of Aleksandar Stamboliyski, the country’s President. The country of Serbia also looked unstable and there was concern in Romania about the political situation.