Word: viscountal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Observers noted that the chief conflicts over this agenda centered about the well worn subject of "security." Viscount Cecil for Britain steadily opposed the inclusion of the "Degrees of Security" or "Invisible Armaments" clauses in the agenda. To him and to the British press, disarmament was evidently a subject which had to do chiefly with scrapping tangible implements of warfare. However M. Paul-Boncour, in the name of France and the smaller nations, insisted that the "intangible" factors actually outweighed the "material" in importance...
...Viscount Matsudaira, Japanese Ambassador to the United States, will deliver an informal talk following a tea and reception in his honor at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon in the Philips Brooks House, before the Harvard Japanese Students Association...
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS (1892-1916) -Viscount Grey-Stokes, 2 vols. ($10). Memoirs of Britain's famous Minister of Foreign Affairs, who was intimately concerned with the outbreak of the Great...
Last week, however, the suave and efficient Sir Eric* received tidings which foreshadowed a modicum of English recreation amid the Swiss calm of Geneva. From Viscount Cecil of Chelwood came a crisp cheque for ?1000, with the suggestion that ?500 be allotted for tennis courts at the disposal of the League Secretariat, and that the rest be used to extend the Geneva Golf Club's course and to assist impecunious undersecretaries to join the club. Viscount Cecil added that the ?1000 represented part of the $25,000 peace prize awarded to him by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation two years...
...half-brother and heir presumptive of William Huntly Drummond, 15th Earl of Perth, eleventh Viscount Strathallan, hereditary Thane of Lennox. For all that, Sir Eric has been a secretary to somebody or something, and a good one, for over a quarter century. In 1900 he joined the British Foreign Office and served successively as Confidential Secretary to Sir Edward Grey, Herbert Asquith and Arthur Balfour. From 1912 to 1915 he was one of the Private Secretaries to Premier Asquith. From then on until 1919 he was Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary Balfour. Then President Wilson secured his appointment as Secretary...