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Died. Ronald John McNeill. 1st Baron Cushendun, 73, onetime British delegate to the League of Nations; in County Antrim, Ireland...
...Geneva keen, smiling Ivy Litvinov is a member in her own right of whatever Russian Delegation may be headed by Max. Her first appearance was in the days when Great Britain was represented by that congenital Tory tea-drinker Baron Cushendun. Stumbling with his tea into Mme Litvinov in the League lobby he once boomed...
Demurely Mme Litvinov replied: "Why, Lord Cushendun, haven't you heard? I am a Russian now. My husband is assistant commissar of foreign affairs." As though stung by a hornet, Lord Cushendun recoiled, never thereafter greeted Mme Litvinov more enthusiastically than by a curt nod. From the London standpoint she is a Tory journalist gone wrong, and "Mr. Harrison" should have remained a traveling salesman...
Chairman Loudon of the Commission introduced still another plan by reading a letter signed "Clifford Harmon, President of the International League of Aviators." Mr. Harmon was present to hear his letter read. He flushed very red when Baron Cushendun observed at the close of the reading: "I know nothing about the gentleman who wrote the letter, but everybody knows there are organizations with high sounding titles which, it is possible, consist of an office on the fifth floor and a letterhead. I think the letter itself of no value, but even if it were valuable I believe it very improper...
Airman Harmon, monied amateur, is by no means unknown to persons less air-unconscious than Baron Cushendun. A contemporary of the Wrights, Curtis, Bleriot, Farman et al., and an ardent balloonist, he now lives in Paris where he attends to the affairs of the International League of Aviators. Most potent of these affairs is the annual presentation of the ornate Harmon trophy for achievement in aviation. Recent recipients of the trophy include...