NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 8 February 1924

8 FEBRUARY 1924

David Lloyd George, the former Prime Minister, denial an American newspaper’s claim that in an interview he spoke of a secret compact dealing with the Rhineland occupation as having been made between Georges Clemenceau, the French President, and the late Woodrow Wilson, the former US President. Harold Spender, the interviewer, accepted full responsibility.

Lord Balfour, referring the reconstruction of Austria, said that the League of Nations had demonstrated even to the the most sceptical and cynical that it was capable of carrying out its policy with wisdom, caution and courage.

The dockers’ demands were considered by the Employers’ National Council at a conference in London and it was believed that this was sufficient to avert a strike.