Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British statesman and friend of Zionism, arrived in America to receive the first award of $25,000 by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation “for meritorious service of a public character tending to the establishment of peace through justice”.
Lord Cecil will receive the award on Dec. 28 at a dinner at the Hotel Astor. On Jan. 2 he will be the dinner guest of the Pilgrims and will end his hurried visit. He will sail back to England on Jan. 3.
At the pier to meet Lord Cecil when the “Olympic” docked were Thomas W. Lamont, the banker whose house guest the visitor will be and Norman H. Davis. President of the Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
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