Lord Robert Cecil (1946), at the last Assembly of the League of Nations.

Learn more. Use the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. With League of Nations Union members at home and with internationalists abroad, his reputation was high, his example inspiring. Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. As early as 1916 he began to draw up an international peacekeeping agreement, and in 1919, when he was sent to the peace conference in Paris, his ideas proved generally compatible with those of United States President Woodrow Wilson and South African Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, the other prominent advocates of the League. Others, equally unsympathetic, described the Union in similar but cruder terms as a collection of 'bloodthirsty Pacifists' and total non-resisters . ' 2 Union leaders naturally rejected these pejorative labels, but privately sought Lord Robert Cecil: A Nineteenth-Century Upbringing. Like Smuts, Lord Robert believed in a world order determined by the white nations; he successfully opposed a provision for absolute racial equality among League member states. Buy Online Access  Buy Print & Archive Subscription.

Lord Robert Cecil, Apostle of the League of Nations. To continue reading this article you will need to purchase access to the online archive. Shareable Link. Omissions? Save the League of Nations to save peace: Robert Cecil's Nobel Peace Prize lecture (Oslo, June 1 , 1 938) Robert Cecil (1 864-1 958)' the third son of the Marquis of Salisbury2, can be considered one of the main proponents and supporters of the League of Nations.

Wilson. Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil, British statesman and winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1937. By P.w. Cecil was the third son of the 3rd marquess of Salisbury, who was three times British prime minister. Indeed, his connexion with it was far longer. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. The gifted third son of the last Victorian Prime Minister was described as having ‘one foot in the Middle Ages and the other in the League of Nations’, as his descendant, Hugh Cecil, finds out.

His deep voice - identical, hearers said, with the tones of his father, the late Prime Minister Lord Salisbury - resounded with moral fervour across the Hall of the General Assembly.

With Wilson, he jointly begat and delivered the League before and after the end of the First World War; but the President, having failed to bring the United States into the League and experienced the onset of his fatal illness, disappeared from the scene, while Robert Cecil continued to play the father’s role throughout the League’s brief and difficult life.

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The founding of the League of Nations in 1919 marked a radical departure from previous methods of diplomacy. The young Robert studied law at University College , Oxford and in 1887 he was As the principal British delegate to the disarmament conference at Geneva (1926–27), Cecil disagreed with the instructions given him and resigned from Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin’s government.