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...observer," Minister to Switzerland Hugh R. Wilson. Mr. Wilson disagreed with Dr. Sze that Japan had violated the Kellogg Pact. The Council agreed with Mr. Yoshizawa that the matter was one for direct negotiation between Japan and China. "Particularly." soothed Britain's Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, "as Mr. Yoshizawa assures us that Japan is now withdrawing her troops. . . . I hope that these troops will be withdrawn as rapidly as possible." Dr. Sze could not even get the League to appoint a commission which would supervise the Japanese "withdrawal," if it was taking place. From Washington Hon. Henry L. Stimson...
...these words Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, who had just delivered for Great Britain a speech congratulating himself and fellow delegates, allowed himself to slide a little down into his chair, assumed an almost sulky expression...
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...
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...