Word: chelwood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years. Out of its 850-odd members, normally only a tenth or less attend.* But last week 258 showed up to listen, speak and be counted. In the debate, some of them displayed a lively concern over an issue deeper than steel or immediate programs. Old Viscount Cecil of Chelwood cried that the Parliament Bill was leading straight to an "oligarchy" of the cabinet. Sweeping the chamber with a steely glare, he said: "I shall be told, perhaps, that this does not matter because the cabinet obtain their power from the electorate . . . Hitler made a precisely similar claim . . ." Vigorous Lord...
...government's Herbert Morrison came over to the House of Lords for the debate. He sat on a step with his elbow on the throne seat, passing a fretful hand through his thinning hair. Lord Chief Justice Goddard declared Mr. Ede's action unconstitutional. Viscount Cecil of Chelwood leveled a stern, accusing finger at Lord Jowitt who, as Lord Chancellor, was Prime Minister Attlee's nominee in the House of Lords, and thundered...
...crowded House of Lords one day last week, more than 200 barons, viscounts, earls, marquesses and dukes sat like sardines. The noble lords were aroused. Shaking his mittened hands, 83-year-old Viscount Cecil of Chelwood inveighed against tyranny. Cried he: "What happened in Berlin yesterday and Moscow today may well happen in London tomorrow!" What was up? It was the perennial question: Would the ornamental House of Lords be allowed to continue their nothing-in-particular in Clem Attlee's day as they had in Wellington...
...belief that peace will only be established ... by the adoption of the Christian commands of neighborly conduct." Viscount Addison felt "some regret that the noble Earl was not able to make some more practical and effective suggestion. . . ." The League of Nation's roommate, aging, disillusioned Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, could not believe that such a resolution would "advance the cause of peace in the very slightest...
Parliament greeted the pact with solemn rejoicing. In the House of Lords Viscount Cecil of Chelwood called it an "extremely vivid contrast to the German Government's 'New Order.' " Only a few of the Lords had reservations about Ethiopia's new freedom. Though Anthony Eden had assured the House of Commons that Haile Selassie had promised to abolish slavery just as soon as possible, some of their Lordships wanted to know why the pact was signed before the emancipation was a fact...