NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 22 December 1924
22 DECEMBER 1924
David Lloyd George, at a Liberal demonstration in Edinburgh, stated the case for the maintenance of the Liberal party in the political life of the country, as coming between a party who supported private monopoly and vested interest, and the Socialist party, who sought to confiscate everything for the benefit of a State monopoly. On the problem of the slums, he contended that no solution would be found unless they dealt with land monopoly.
Voting takes place to-day at Dundee in the by-election caused by the death of the late Socialist member, Mr Morel.
At a political demonstration in the City Hall, Glasgow, Mr John Wheatley said that, if any attempt was made by the Government of Great Britain to launch us into war with Russia, he for one was prepared to spend, not merely his time, but his life, in appealing to the working class of this country, not merely to refuse to join in the attack, but to utilise the opportunity of the war with Russia in attacking British capitalism.
Benito Mussolini has thrown a bombshell into the Italian political camp in the shape of an Electoral Reform Bill providing for single-member representation and adoption of the British system whereby a majority vote secures a direct seat. His action involves an appeal to the country during the spring.
Édouard Herriot, the French Premier, received at his bedside a number of Parisian journalists, to whom he made a reassuring statement regarding Communists’ activities in France. He deprecated panic-mongering, the effect of which was to injure the credit of France. La Liberté is to be prosecuted for an alleged infringement of the Press Law.
Much angry comment appears in the German Press with regard to the British Government’s decision to postpone the evacuation of Cologne, which is held to be a breach of the Versailles Treaty. The German Government still awaits reports from its London and Paris Embassies, which are to be a breach of the Versailles Treaty.
