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...Nodded sardonic approval as Viscount Burnham whimsically expounded the Judicial Proceedings Act to suppress publication of evidence in divorce cases (TIME, Dec. 20) as follows...
...Read a scathing speech delivered by Viscount Grey of Fallodon at a banquet of Asquithian Liberals, in which their total rupture with the Lloyd George Liberal faction (TIME, Oct. 25) was reaffirmed...
...Adjourned until Feb. 8, after hearing the King's speech proroguing Parliament read by Viscount Cave, the Lord High Chancellor and Speaker of the House of Lords. For the first time in history His Majesty's speech referred to "my Ministers from the Dominions" instead of "my Ministers," thus confirming the principle laid down at the Imperial Conference (TIME, Nov. 1 et seq.) that the mother country and the Dominions are on a completely equivalent mutual status...
...stumped. Mr. Root's idea: Let the international mechanism already functioning smoothly to select the jurists of the old Hague Courtbe extended to nominate the World Court judges. Let the Assembly and Council of the League of Nations elect from the nominees. The idea now works smoothly and well. Viscount Cecil (Lord Robert) received, in 1924, the only other Wilson award ever made...
...finally transmitted to M. Briand "new instructions." The shade of Alfred Nobel must have rejoiced as his three Peace prize winners signed a convention adjusting their differences on a hotel table. With them, to bind the bargain, signed Signer Scialoja of Italy, Foreign Minister Vandervelde of Belgium and dapper Viscount Ishii of Japan, League Council members all. The role of Emile Vandervelde, veteran Socialist Belgian Foreign Minister, in last week's negotiations was candidly revealed by Dr. Stresemann who said: "He took the part of mediator between us. . . . Do not forget that Germany was the country with which Belgium...