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League. The League of Nations decided not to act on the protest. Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary General of the League, made the position clear...
Premier Ramsay MacDonald of Britain, expostulating that British troops had remained on the Iraq side of the frontier (i.e., what Britain said was the Iraq side), requested the League for an immediate Council meeting to deal with the difficulty. The Council of the League informed Sir Eric Drummond, League Secretary General, that it would hold "as soon as possible" an extraordinary session to consider the Anglo-Turkish dispute...
Those responsible were the purple-shirted followers of Captain "Carty" Burke, of the Midwick Country Club. With Eric Pedley heading the attack, they fell upon the Wanderers, a team captained by Thomas Hitchcock Jr., famed internationalist, in the finals of the national open championship at Meadow Brook, L. I., and bore off the title 6 goals to 5. Hitchcock, relying on Louis E. Stoddard, onetime internationalist, at back, twice tied the count with spectacular efforts- one a blow from midfield. At the desperate finish, his play was "as a wild man's," but without support. The Midwicks rode together...
...James Eric Drummond was nominated in 1919 by the late U. S. President Wilson as Secretary General of the League of Nations. Previous to that appointment he was employed in a number of important posts in the British Foreign Office. Sir Eric is 48 years of age, a half brother of and heir presumptive to the 15th Earl of Perth. He is of medium height and size. Above his dimpled chin are a pair of sparkling blue eyes and a small mustache. There is nothing about him to make him distinguished and it has been written of him that...
...Eric has made fewer public speeches than any other man so much in the public eye. It has been said that his official utterances can be counted on the fingers of one hand. He appears in public on the fewest number of occasions possible, which accounts to some extent for the dearth of personal knowledge about him. He is "the quietest, most self-effacing...