NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 20 November 1923
20 NOVEMBER 1923
Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, talking at the Queen’s Hall in London, replied to speeches of Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George and declared his faith in his tariff proposals, not as an immediate cure, but as the only effective way of securing an early improvement in trade and employment.
Sir Robert Horne, in a speech in Glasgow, supported Imperial Preference.
The united Liberal party have issued a manifesto, signed by Herbert Asquith and David Lloyd George, criticising the Unionist policy and outlining their own principles.
The Prince of Wales is to visit South Africa next year.
