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Speech of the week was that made by Edgar Algernon Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, leading British exponent of the League of Nations (during the War, Minister of Blockade). "The peace current is slackening," he warned. "Old tendencies which ultimately lead to war are beginning once more to assert themselves. . . . No one who watched the negotiations of the London Naval Conference can have failed to see how much they were conducted in a war atmosphere, how seldom any reference was made to great international instruments for peace. . . . Important leaders of opinion are again preaching that hoary-headed falsehood...
...Waldorf, Viscount Astor, better known as the husband of Nancy, Lady Astor, M. P., appeared last week before the Royal Commission on Licensing to give his expert testimony on the "condition of drinking" in Britain. "The most recent development in drinking," said Lord Astor stroking his chin, "has been the use of cocktails. It is a new habit, and I may add that it is apparently growing. It is a habit that has been created by private enterprise because there is money in cocktails...
...Viscount Bearsted of Samuel & Co. and chairman of the Shell (oil) Transport & Trading...
John Rushworth Jellicoe, 70, Earl Jellicoe, Viscount Brocas of Southampton, Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa, commander of the British Grand Fleet (1914-16), later first sea lord, Admiral of the Fleet and governor-general of New Zealand (1920-24), demanded to know why the thousands of British workers who sit idle receiving the unemployment dole should not be made to work for this money building battleships. "Treaties do not of themselves always give security and safety," he cried. "In the view of one who has been responsible for Great Britain's security in critical days, that security is gone...
David Beatty, 59, Admiral of the Fleet, Earl Beatty of the North Sea and of Brooksby, Viscount Borodale of Wexford, son-in-law of the late Chicago drygoods tycoon Marshall Field Sr., commander of the 1st battle cruiser squadron in the Battle of Jutland (May 31, 1916), Lord Rector of Edinburgh University (1917), said: "We are about to commit the great appalling blunder of signing away the sea power by which the British Empire came into being and is maintained today. . . . The most enlightened sea officers with whom I talked have condemned the Treaty absolutely as one which will render...