NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 22 October 1924
22 OCTOBER 1924
Sir Alfred Mond was refused a hearing in Hackney, where the Socialists broke up his meeting.
Glasgow Magistrates issued a warning that they would take a serious view of any cases of disturbance or obstruction at election meetings which might come before them in their judicial capacity.
Lord Curzon, at a Unionist meeting in London, strongly condemned the Russian Treaty. He said that the policy of the last Government was British throughout. It was the policy of the firm hand.
Sir Robert Horne, addressing his constituents in Glasgow, said there had never been a grosser fraud perpetrated on this country than the Russian Treaty. Trade Unions had issued a circular stating that the Treaty should be carried through, but he did not believe that Trade Unions would lend a single penny of their funds to Russia.
Winston Churchill at Bristol said the Unionist programme might have served for an actively progressive Liberal Administration. “Trust the people” was a motto which should animate them in the present fight.
Sir Auckland Geddes, at Blackburn, said the Government in the field of foreign policy filled him with grave uneasiness. They seemed to speak not knowing, perhaps not caring, and other countries listening to their words believed them to be full of meaning.
Addressing his supporters at Paisley, Mr Asquith said that Mr Wheatley’s Bill now stood not as a monument to the creative insight and skill of the Labour Government, but as a co-operative undertaking in which all parties in the State had a hand.
