Word: algernon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speech of the week was that made by Edgar Algernon Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, leading British exponent of the League of Nations (during the War, Minister of Blockade). "The peace current is slackening," he warned. "Old tendencies which ultimately lead to war are beginning once more to assert themselves. . . . No one who watched the negotiations of the London Naval Conference can have failed to see how much they were conducted in a war atmosphere, how seldom any reference was made to great international instruments for peace. . . . Important leaders of opinion are again preaching that hoary-headed falsehood...
Louis Osborne, six, is the smart son of Rome's suave Dr. Algernon Osborne, commercial attaché at the U. S. embassy. He has a sister Maria Christina, another sister Isabel. Like the Jaeckel boys (sons of the U. S. consul general) Dr. Algernon Osborne's children go to Miss Ruth Faison Shaw's school for offspring of the U. S. colony, and all lisp fluent Italian...