Word: curzon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Defending the $40,000,000 Widow's Pensions Bill, famed Lady Cynthia Mosley, daughter of the late, great, crusty Conservative Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, made her maiden speech. A rabid Socialist M. P., she cried: "I have been getting something for nothing all my life! . . . Why shouldn't poor widowed women get something for nothing...
Died. Walter de Curzon Poultney, 83, of Baltimore, internationally famed socialite and traveler; in Baltimore...
...Realm were observed to be reading the just-published memoirs of Viscount D'Ab ernon, who was Britain's first post-War ambassador (1920-26) to Germany. At the Spa Conference in 1920, Viscount D'Abernon wrote in his diary, under date of July 6: "Lloyd George and Lord Curzon* are fine representatives. Impudence and dignity are attributed to them by some foreign critics. But the impudence is so extraordinarily quick and intelligent and decided, the dignity so grand in manner and so imposing, that no country could wish for anything better in the way of representatives. . . . Curzon was born...
...Famed "Curzon of Kedleston" (1859-1925) was then British Foreign Secretary. Too little remembered is the fact that he was at least the grandfather of the Dawes Plan. As British Foreign Secretary (1919-24), he had officially denounced as "utterly illegal" the French at tempts to squeeze reparations out of Germany by occupying the Ruhr. As an alternative course he urged and finally persuaded the Allied Powers to convene the Committee of Experts which drafted the Dawes Plan. Two decades earlier he had been one of England's greatest Viceroys of India (1899-1905). His posthumous biography by the Earl...
Died. The Noble Earls of Howe and of Egmont, on the same day. Richard George Penn Curzon, 67, fourth Earl of Howe, was Hon. Treasurer of the Allied Forces in wartime, 1914-1915; descendant of General Howe of American Revolutionary fame; onetime Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria; and Lord Chamberlain tc Queen Alexandra. Charles John Perceval. 70, ninth Earl of Egmont, had been merchant mariner, mounted policeman in Natal, border customer in Zululand...