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...Eric Pedley?a rangey, youthful Californian, the first Westerner to be even mentioned for an International tour. Within two weeks of appearing on an Eastern field he displaced J. Watson Webb at No. 1 on Team A with smashing play. He is an all-round athlete, magnificent horseman. During one match, he surprised the gallery when he crouched over his horse's neck, jockey-like, in "riding off" an opponent. The ordinary method is to sit clamped in the saddle...
Last week it was unveiled. The President of the Town Council, the U. S. Consul, Sir Eric Drummond (Secretary General of the League) made speeches. Sir Eric made reference to "the atmosphere of Geneva, which, being clear from any international strife, has an appealing virtue which tends to render passions less violent and disputes less bitter...
Armaments. In private session the Council decided to distribute as an official document to all Governments represented in the Council a plan for limitation of armaments devised by a group of Americans headed by Prof. J. T. Shotwell of Columbia University and General Tasker Howard Bliss. Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary General of the League, stated that the report would soon be received by President Benes (Premier of Czecho-Slovakia) of the League Council and that he thought it was a serious and probably extremely useful study of the armament problem...
...Sincerely speaking, I believe my own work superficial. It is true that new composers have much talent, but they are not strong. . . . With the exception of Eric Korngold, composer of Der Tote Stadt, I cannot mention anyone I believe in. I am now working on a libretto by Hugo von Hoff-mansthal, author of The Miracle, which suggests great possibilities...
...Secretary General of the League of Nations, Sir James Eric Drummond, summoned the Fifth Assembly to meet at Geneva on Sept...