Word: fallodon
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Because of his continued poor sight, due mainly to his strenuous term of office as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1905-1916), Viscount Grey of Fallodon (Sir Edward Grey of War fame) announced his retirement from the leadership of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords...
...annual dinner given by the Rhodes Scholars at Oxford, Lord Grey of Fallodon, ex-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said that the future of the world depended upon how far the U. S. and the British Commonwealth could pull together. He stated that common ideals and not a common language were the basis of agreement. He thought that both countries wanted the same kind of a world in which to live, and that the problems of both were not problems of republics or monarchies but problems of whether free government was to be maintained and liberty upheld...
Viscountess Grey of Fallodon has written another book.* Reviewers mention the work as " a volume of essays neither particularly attractive nor commendable from a literary point of view and below her previous books." Viscountess Grey was born Pamela Genevieve Adelaide Wyndham, youngest daughter of the late Hon. Percy Wyndham. In 1895 she married the first Baron Glenconner and was left a widow in 1920 with three sons and a daughter. In 1922 she married Viscount Grey of Fallodon, formerly Sir Edward Grey, quondam Foreign Minister and British Ambassador to the U. S. Lady Grey is a Fellow of the Eoyal...
Lord Grey of Fallodon unveiled a memorial in Westminster Abbey to the late Walter Hines Page, war-time U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James. A large crowd of dignitaries attended the impressive ceremony...
Viscount Grey of Fallodon, former Secretary for Foreign Affairs: "I believe, and I think the great majority of the people in this country believe, that this question (German reparations) could be settled by the League of Nations...