Word: drummond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eric Drummond, suave and able Secretary General to the League of Nations, drew a check for something over a million full-valued Swiss francs last week ($225,000). In exchange for the check, there was turned over to the League a villa on the shore of Lake Leman, the lonely Villa Bartholoni, north of Geneva, which was the residence of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson during her visit last September...
...Berlin. Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary-General of the League of Nations, arrived from Geneva to confer with Foreign Minister Stresemann respecting the details of Germany's forthcoming entry into the League. Later the Foreign Relations Committee of the Reichstag passed a resolution strongly condemning French propaganda, which has been urging that Poland be given a permanent seat on the League Council at the same time as Germany. The German resolution was, of course, couched in purely general terms; did not mention Poland or her great ally France...
When it arrived, Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary-General of the League of Nations, skimmed through the lengthy preamble and rested his eye fondly on the conclusion: "I have the honor, in accordance with Article 1 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, to formulate herewith, in the name of the German Government, a proposal for the admission of Germany to the League of Nations...
...formula" under which postponement could be effected without branding any nation as unwilling to disarm. France and England have been especially anxious not to incur this disagreeable onus of responsibility-hence the hasty and secret consultation among Premier Briand, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, and Sir Eric Drummond, the ever tactful Secretary General to the League of Nations (TIME, Feb. 8, FRANCE...
Foreign Minister Briand welcomed Foreign Secretary Chamberlain and they went into secret session with each other and finally with Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary General to the League of Nations, who suddenly had sped to Paris from Geneva...