WORK FOR PEACE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22892, 22 November 1937, Page 10

WORK FOR PEACE

VISCOUNT CECIL'S PRIZE EULOGIES IN AMERICA NEW YORK, Nov. 17 The honorary degree of doctor, of laws was conferred on Viscount Cecil at Columbia University, New York, 1C minutes after he had heard of his having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Asked his opinion of the prospects of world peace, Lord Cecil replied: "They are materially improved by this award." The president of the university, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, eulogised Lord Cecil as "the bearer of a great name and inheritor of a groat tradition, and a tireless worker in the cause of international organisations lor the cooperation which alono will make possible an assured and continued peace." It is reported that Lord Cecil came to America to learn Washington's probable attitude toward joining a reorganised League of Nations and cooperating in applying economic sanctions against aggressor nations. He denied, however, that his mission was official and insisted that ho had como to address American societies on tho subject of world peace. "The world must choose," Lord Cecil said, "botween an organisation of tho peace-loving Powers and a return to the system which prevailed prior to 1914." GERMAN ATTITUDE "NO LONGER AN HONOUR" BERLIN. Nov. 1!) German political quarters do not comment on the award of the Nobel Peace Prize, which is not mentioned in tho press. _ One spokesman remarked: "Tho Nobel Prize Committee is no longer taken seriously. Wo do not regard It* award as an honour."