Word: cecils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Geneva. Sessions of the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Com mission in Geneva last week were enlivened and made acrimonious by Great Britain's famed Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, tire less apostle of Disarmament, winner of the 1924 Woodrow Wilson Peace Award (TIME...
...number of its trained re serves. Since the military might of France is chiefly based on the huge number of her annually conscripted reserves and the vast supplies of guns, shells and tanks always at their disposal, the pur pose of the French move was obvious. Last week Lord Cecil demanded, in the name of the new British Labor Government, that both war stocks and trained reserves should be put back on the list of "armaments" which the Preparatory Commission is seeking ways to reduce. Stressing particularly the urgency of limiting engines of warfare, Lord Cecil cried: "I consider machines...
After days of furious debate on the Cecil resolution it was considered still too inflammatory to Latin passions to put to vote. To the rescue came. Greece's confident Nicholas Politis, practiced handy man at loosening League pinches. He drafted a compromise resolution which "... confidently hopes the preparatory Disarmament Commission will be able to resume the work interrupted at the last session with the view of framing a preliminary draft convention for the reduction and limitation of land, naval and air armaments as soon as possible...
...Cecil Blount De Mille: "In the last analysis the director is a story-teller...
...internationalists who will enter next year's international play. They had been sent to play in tournaments, to get the feel of U. S. turf, to study U. S. play and players. In addition to Capt. Roark, sure to be among next year's challengers, were bespectacled Cecil Balding, wing commander Percival K. Wise, tattooed 9-goalman and Capt. Charles H. Tremayne, recently-chosen leader of the Internationals...