" No Propagandist"

" I am not on a ' mission' I am not a ' propagandist " writes Lord Robert Cecil, referring to his visit to the United States. His purpose in coming to America is to talk about the League of Nations, but in no sense does he propose to give advice.

Edgar Algernon Robert Cecil was born on Sept. 14, 1864, and grew up like any ordinary boy, but in the historic environment of Hatfield House, country seat of the Cecils. He was educated at Eton, and later migrated to Oxford, where he entered University College. Even when within the precincts of England's oldest university he took a lively interest in politics, and since his college days his whole life has been devoted to his country; for, as A. L. Kennedy wrote of his father, Lord Salisbury, he was " born of a class which habitually thinks of the interests of the State as identical with their own." Lord Robert, facing the increased difficulties of more modern days, has kept faithfully the best traditions of his great family. It is, perhaps, interesting to note that he is a great-grandson of a grandson of Charles II. The first Cecil to be Prime Minister was "the Great Lord Burleigh," the one statesman who never lost the confidence of Queen Elizabeth.