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...Were augmented by Philip Snowden, Lord Privy Seal in the National Government, whom His Majesty was graciously pleased to create last week a Viscount...
...Viscount is addressed by George V as ''our right trusty and well beloved cousin." Cousin Snowden will choose what he wants to be Viscount of (perhaps his birthplace, Keighley; or his home, Tilford), will take his seat in the House of Lords later...
...third failure, the assembled statesmen knew, would be catastrophic for League prestige. To prevent failure two Great Powers sent bigger men. Britain's new Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, replaced her former delegate, Viscount Cecil who last week took a back seat. For the U. S. famed Prentiss Gilbert, who sat with the Council in Geneva not daring to open his mouth, did not sit. Instead last week Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes opened and shut his resounding mouth in a nearby Paris hotel, represented the U. S. so potently that Council statesmen gathered in his suite for what almost...
Secretary of State for War, Viscount Hailsham, Conservative...
...Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, had sharp bumps built into the straightaways which no driver would be inclined to take at a fast clip more than once. The Manchester Guardian recalled a precedent of the plan, a bill introduced into the House of Lords by Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, requiring the local authorities of every English village to dig a shallow trench across the road at the town limits...