WILSON PEACE PRIZE.
AWARD TO VISCOUNT CECIL.
RECEIVES i 25,000 DOLLARS.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Rccd. 11.40 p.m.) NEW YORK. Dec. 5.
Viscount Cecil of Chelwood has been declared the winner of the first 25,000 dollars award of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Ho was unanimously chosen by the jury of award as the person "who rendered the most meritorious service of a public character toward the establishment of peace through justice, and who had done most to give effect to the ideals and great plan for world peace to which the late Mr. Woodrow Wilson gave so much thought and effort."
Viscount Cecil accepts the prize and will come to New York on December 28 to receive it.
Viscount Cecil is still better known to the world by his former title, Lord Robert Cecil.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18885, 6 December 1924, Page 11
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