A house guest of Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lamont in Manhattan last week was Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, 73, when cables flashed that he is to receive 158,000 Swedish kronor ($40,000), the Nobel Peace Prize for 1937.
Aristocrat Cecil during the War was British Minister of Blockade, became one of the drafters of the Covenant of the League of Nations. In 1924 he was the first winner of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation's $25,000 award for having striven for "world Peace through Justice."
In 1935 Lord Cecil, as president of the British League of Nations Union,...
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