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These two opposing views, as everyone knows, were presented with the greatest energy by M. Paul-Boncour (France) and Viscount Cecil (Britain) when the Council of the League deliberated upon these questions and many another (TIME, Dec. 21). As a result, it was considered imperative that vital if quite academic preparations should be made before the Disarmament Conference itself should be convoked - if ever. The press of the world has unfortunately given the impression by its headlines that "disarming" is to be attempted at this preliminary and purely preparatory conference. Such is not the case...
...born in 1859, joined the British Navy 13 years later. Sir John Jellicoe commanded the British Grand Fleet (1914-1916), and while personally worshiped by British tars, was considered by some experts to have let the German fleet slip through his fingers at the battle of Jutland (1916). Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa became Admiral of the Fleet in 1919. In 1920 he was sent as Governor General and Commander-in-Chief to New Zealand, returning in 1924, to be created, in 1925 Viscount Brocas of Southampton and Earl Jellicoe...
...Viscount Grey, onetime Foreign Secretary, once remarked: "Mr. Winston Churchill has achieved distinction in at least five different careers-as a soldier, a war correspondent, a lecturer, an author and last, but not least, as a politician...
...death, the aged Field Marshal was present at the Imperial Shrine, in Tokyo, when a sleepy-eyed great-granddaughter of "The Restorer," Mikado Meiji, was presented to her Imperial grandfather. The tiny Princess Teru-No-Miya Shigeko, born only last December (TIME, Dec. 14), cooed at Field Marshal Viscount Kawamura. A question seemed lurking in his eyes. It is not known how great a destiny awaits Japan in the Princess' lifetime...
...Died. Viscount Kageakira Kawamura, 76, Field Marshal of Japan; in Tokyo. (See JAPAN...