NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 7 October 1923

7 OCTOBER 1923

Gustav Stresemann, the German Chancellor, said that it might be necessary to rule without Parliament as the crisis in the country’s politics continued. Stresemann has been able to form a new Cabinet, but it was unclear whether or not it would be stable.

Lord Curzon was criticised in the French press for suggestion that France’s policy in the Ruhr Valley might not be successful.