NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 7 December 1923

7 DECEMBER 1923

Polling continued in the General Election, with the first results being expected in the evening.

Calvin Coolidge, the President of the United States, in his Message to the American Congress, indicated adhesion to the principle of a Permanent Court of International Justice, and indicated his attitude to a proposal in the Senate to accord support for such a body. With regard to the United States tariff law, he stated that it had secured the prosperity of the country.