Word: chelwood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proposed for the Edward N. Hurley College was an exchange of students with similar foreign schools. A cable was sent to Edgar Algernon Robert Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, president of the British National Union of Students, offering scholarships...
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...