Word: chelmsford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY Frederick John Napier Thesiger, Viscount Chelmsford, Conservative, lawyer. His appointment was a great surprise. He was once Viceroy of India...
...motion to instal baths in houses being converted into apartments for laborers was defeated. Said Colonel Prettyman, Conservative for Chelmsford: "Why, our forefathers had only two baths in their lifetime?one when they were born and the other when they died?and they took neither of them voluntarily." The New York Herald says: "It's all a myth about the Englishman and his inevitable bath...
...Lord Chelmsford Converted...
...important member of the Assembly of 1922 was Lord Chelmsford, a hard headed British proconsul who had been Governor successively of Queensland and New South Wales, and for five years Victory of India. He came to Geneva reluctantly and as a skeptic, in the position of First Delegate of India to the Assembly. After a few weeks of participation in the work of the League, he admitted gracefully that he had been mistaken in his judgement, and delivered the following thoughtful tribute from the door of the Assembly...
Many good people far from the seat of the League's activity,--an activity which, though worldwide, has its organic center at Geneva,--still talk loosely of the League of Nations as a vague idealistic dream. Nothing could be farther from the truth, as Lord Chelmsford, a practical administrator of long experience, has so aptly pointed out. The fact is that even in its short three years of history the League has undertaken and successfully completed a variety of international tasks of a practical constructive nature, such, in many cases, as have never before been accomplished in the world...