Word: viscountal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interesting to note the strange case of Viscount Grey v. Baldwin's late Pact (as well-recorded in TIME, Nov. 19). There was a time when the Viscount (then Sir Edward and Foreign Sec't.) was himself a defendant in a similar action...
...that Sir Edward revealed for the first time, the nature of his own agreements with France. Said Viscount Grey: The naval conversations (with France) had prepared for the present an effective cooperation of the two powers in case of war, but, it has always been understood that these agreements did not "restrict the freedom of either government to decide at any future time whether or not to assist the other by armed force...
...Washington correspondents the President observed, last week, that he would willingly consider any proposals for the limitation of armaments which might emanate from the British Government. Proposals of this nature were made in the House of Lords, last week, by Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, winner of the Wood-row Wilson Peace Prize, who was forced to resign as British representative on the League of Nations because his advocacy of pacifism and disarmament was in advance of the British Government's position. That position was such that absolutely nothing was achieved when the Naval Limitations Parley (TIME, June...
Died. Viscountess Pamela Grey, 57, since 1922 wife of Viscount Grey of Fallodon, previously sister-in-law of Margot Asquith; at Salisbury, England. John Singer Sargent's portrait of Viscountess Grey & her two sisters has long been famed as The Three Graces...
What would the King say? For everyone knows that it is not really his own speech which the King reads, but Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's speech. And everyone knew, last week, that on the previous day the great Liberal peer, Viscount Grey of Fallodon (Foreign Secretary from 1905 to 1916, had ended his long political silence, had risen like a disturbing, provoking ghost, and had bitterly flayed the Conservative British Government for concluding with France the recent and notorious naval and military agreement or Pact (TIME...