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Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, Secondary British Delegate, 1924 recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Peace Award, tireless champion of the League of Nations...
...political situation is not yet ripe. . . . We must prepare public opinion not to expect wonders at once. . . . Discussion has shown that an agreement cannot be reached until public opinion in many lands has drawn nearer to a common focus, permitting governments to modify their positions. . . ." Progress. Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, recipient of the first Wilson "Peace Prize"* (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924) and British delegate on the Preparatory Commission, described the Commission's "progress" last week in optimistic terms. Said he: "The Commission has carried out its assignment. ... It has drawn up a scheme [the "Draft Treaty of Disarmament...
...Flappers," the attitude of one so close to the present Conservative Government as Lord Hugh Cecil was of significant import. His elder brother, the Marquess of Salisbury, sits in the Baldwin Cabinet as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords. Another brother is Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, onetime Lord Robert Cecil, famed peace-man. Hence, if the opinion of these potent Cecils upon the woman's suffrage bill is truly mirrored by the words of Lord Hugh Cecil last week, a definite faction in the Cabinet is disclosed militating against the known liberal attitude of Premier...
...there is to be a disarmament conference at Geneva, the plenipotentiary of the U. S. will be Hugh S. Gibson, newly appointed Ambassador to Belgium (see below). Great Britain's leading delegate will probably be Viscount Cecil (Lord Robert Cecil) of Chelwood; first (1924) winner of the Woodrow Wilson $25,000 peace prize...
Last week, however, the suave and efficient Sir Eric* received tidings which foreshadowed a modicum of English recreation amid the Swiss calm of Geneva. From Viscount Cecil of Chelwood came a crisp cheque for ?1000, with the suggestion that ?500 be allotted for tennis courts at the disposal of the League Secretariat, and that the rest be used to extend the Geneva Golf Club's course and to assist impecunious undersecretaries to join the club. Viscount Cecil added that the ?1000 represented part of the $25,000 peace prize awarded to him by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation two years...