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...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...
...David Edgar Knapp, Bucksport, Me.; Clair Thomas Leonard, Newtonville; Jacob Lerman, Chelsea; Roger Albertus Lutz, Newton; James Andrew McPeek, Cambridge, Ohio; William Joseph Maier, Jr., Huntington, W. Va.; Raymond John Norton, East Boston; Stanley John Gregory Nowak, Chicopee Falls; George Owen, Jr., Newton; John Pallo, Westfield; Homer Battles Park, Chelmsford; Harold Fifield Price, Somerville; Lawrence Rose, Hartford, Conn.; Allan Stewart Ross, West Roxbury; Francis Rouillard, Chico-pee Falls; James Vincent Sacchetti, East Boston; Conrad Salinger, Brookline; Harry Vincent Smart, Bangor, Me.; George Kyriacouls Spyrounes, Lowell; Wallace Everard Stearns, Conrad, N. H.; Joseph Israel Weiner, Boston; John Rollin Weist, New York...
...Proctor was born in Chelmsford, Mass., June 27, 1831. He was prepared for college at Phillips Andover Academy, entered Harvard, and was graduated in the class of 1854. Two years later, in 1856, he graduated from the law department of the University. He had also studied in the office of Charles Tracy of New York, and was admitted to the bar in that city in 1854, but continued his studies until his graduation from the Law School. He then began practice in Boston in the office of Harvey Jewell. In 1862 Hon. William W. Warren, late member of Congress, became...