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...often judgments based on such opportunism prevail among statesmen, but England has still her champions of morality. Whate'er betide, none will be found stauncher than two famed scions of the historic House of Cecil. The elder of these two brothers, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, winner of the Woodrow Wilson $25,000 Peace Award (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924), resigned as British delegate to the League of Nations when he came to feel that the Empire was not fulfilling its whole moral duty to the League...
...Washington correspondents the President observed, last week, that he would willingly consider any proposals for the limitation of armaments which might emanate from the British Government. Proposals of this nature were made in the House of Lords, last week, by Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, winner of the Wood-row Wilson Peace Prize, who was forced to resign as British representative on the League of Nations because his advocacy of pacifism and disarmament was in advance of the British Government's position. That position was such that absolutely nothing was achieved when the Naval Limitations Parley (TIME, June...
...maker of this flattering comparison was the U. S. Ambassador to Belgium, suave Hugh Simons Gibson, who represented the U. S. before the League. The new hero, the orator who was discovered to resemble Cicero, is Baron Cushendun, who last fall replaced Viscount Cecil of Chelwood at Geneva...
There have been two other recipients of the Woodrow Wilson Peace Award: in 1924, Edgar Algernon Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, 63; in 1926, Elihu Root...
...confused with his elder brother, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood...