NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 25 June 1924

25 JUNE 1924

The British Ambassador and the French Charge d’Affaires presented to the German Chancellor a personal message from the British and French Prime Ministers regarding “most disquieting reports” of the increasing activities of the Nationalist and Militarist Associations. It is obviously to the interest of the German Government, states the message, that the real facts regarding Germany’s disarmament should be thoroughly established.

Great enthusiasm marked the opening proceedings of the US Democratic Convention in New York, at which candidates were nominated for the Presidency and the Vice Presidency of the United States.

Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister, visited Glasgow, and was presented with the Freedom of the City, an honour which he shared with Sir Donald MacAlister, the Principal of the University.

There was a hand to hand fight between Deputies in the German Reichstag.

Benito Mussolini, in a speech in the Senate, referred to the Matteotti affair. The National Militia are to be demobilised at once.