Word: viscountal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Japanese Proposal. Chief Delegate Admiral Viscount Minoru Saito made a very elastic and tentative proposal. His apparent purpose was to keep in the background until Britain and the U. S. showed signs of agreement. His keynote was that the present relative naval strengths of the U. S., Britain and Japan should be established as a permanent status...
...decision is taken," said Viscount Byng, "in view of the recent charges made by Lord Rosebery that many peerages are bought with money which finds its way into party funds. ... I am of the opinion that a titular reward ought not to be conditional upon the payment of any at all substantial...
...Canada has refused to pay a so-called "peerage patent fee" demanded by the Treasury. Theoretically this sum, amounting to several hundred pounds, is due as payment for inserting in the Official Gazette a paragraph to the effect that, last fall, Baron Byng was elevated to the style of Viscount. Actually, of course, the "fee" is a time-honored bit of British graft. How did Lord Byng explain his nonpayment...
...patent fee" to men so distinguished as World War General Baron Byng of Vimy. For example, the Earls of Oxford and Asquith, Balfour, and Birkenhead all received "remissions" of between ?2,255 ($10,813) and ?330 ($1,603), at the time of their creations. In the case of Viscount Byng, it would seem, someone in His Majesty's Treasury has blundered...
...Britain's ablest and richest business woman, who succeeded to the title of her father, Viscount Rhondda, and was also created baroness...