Stockholm, lov. 18.
Viscount Cecil of Chelw yood, President of the League of Nati Union, has been awarded the Nope Peace Prize.
Seventy-three years of age. Lord Cecil has been prominent in the affairs of the British Government for many years and is known as a keen champion of individual rights.
His efforts for peace brought his name forward in 1923 for the Nobel Prize, and a year later won him the first award of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Lord Cecil performed notable service for his country and the Allies during the World War, chiefly as Minister of Blockade.
He was Lord Privy Seal in the first government of the then Mr. Stanley Baldwin who appointed him Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the Cabinet succeeding the. first Labour Ministry headed by Mr. Ra MacDonald.—Reuter
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