NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 26 June 1924

26 JUNE 1924

What the Marquis Curzon described as an “unequivocal, uncompromising and thoroughly satisfactory statement” was made in the House of Lords by Lord Parmoor, who in reply to questions declared that the Government were not going to abandon the Sudan, regarding their obligations towards the Sudanese as of such a character that they could not be abandoned without serious loss of prestige.

The Government’s scheme to meet the thrift disqualification grievance of old age pensioners was explained in the House of Commons by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the appropriate financial resolution.

Developments took place in the building trade dispute. The operatives decided to accept the employers’ challenge, and to allow the lock-out decision to take its course. The employers, on the other hand, agreed, on the suggestion of the Minister of Labour, again to meet the operatives.