Word: cushendun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week everyone forgot that less than six months ago Lord Cushendun was only Rt. Hon. Ronald F. M'Neill, Financial Secretary to the Treasury. He loomed suddenly as a champion of Western Europe against Soviet Russia. The occasion for his Ciceronian oration was the most important meeting thus far held by an august body whose title runs to 22 words: The Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference, being a Commission to prepare for a Conference on the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (TIME...
...retort successfully to the plausible if specious Soviet plan? Could they discredit it, tear it to tatters, and at the same time justify before public opinion the League's slow, plodding ways? Such a task required _a Cicero - or, as Anglo-Saxons said, later in the week - a Cushendun...
...hero, Baron Cushendun, rose and towered six feet six over the wide horse shoe table in the League Glass Room. With biting innuendo and battering logic for more than an hour he attacked the Soviet draft convention article by article, and finally in principle...
...scathing conclusion Baron Cushendun remarked that although "some of the Soviet suggestions would make for a better and brighter world . . . don't let us make the mistake of imagining we can reach the goal more quickly ... by taking wild leaps . . . instead of setting to work with patience and perseverance...
...rebuttal to Baron Cushendun soon made by Comrade Litvinov was phrased almost exclusively for home consumption. For example he defended the Soviet Government against charges of bad faith by declaring that it had championed disarmament as far back as the Genoa Conference...