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...Washington last week the new British Ambassador, Lord Halifax, worked on a draft of his first speech in the U. S., to be delivered at a Pilgrims dinner in New York Feb. 24. Since this will be soon after Envoy Hopkins' return, it seemed not unlikely that Lord Halifax would also have something to say about peace aims. Whoever said it first, the U. S. was soon to know a great deal more about what Britain is fighting for. And the U. S. was due to discuss Britain's, and the U. S.'s, war and peace...
Today's conference in Paris among Admiral Francois Darlan, special emissary of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, the Pro-German Laval and Hitler's personal envoy, Otto Abetz, was said to have "practically ended" the 50-day old crisis in French-German relations...
...benefit that, whatever Lord Halifax once was, he is no longer rated an appeaser: "Our choice . . . commands the full confidence of nearly all those in this country who mean to persevere in our righteous cause until its certain victorious end is reached. . . . We send to the United States an envoy who comes from the very centre of our councils and knows all our secrets. . . ." He buttered President Roosevelt by adding: "I rejoice that this pre-eminent figure should newly have received the unprecedented honor of being called for the third time to lead the American democracies...
...Personal Envoy Hopkins was soon sitting in the U. S. Embassy at the desk vacated by Joe Kennedy. To correspondents he admitted that he knew whom the President will shortly appoint as U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, but "it won't be me." After these preliminaries Mr. Hopkins saw new British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and got to the point of his visit in three hours spent with Winston Churchill, another half-hour with George VI. Said Personal Envoy Hopkins afterward: "I have no misgivings about the outcome of this war. There...
...Friday press conference, the President matter-of-factly announced a $350,000,000 shipbuilding program (see p. 74). His second announcement made newsmen scribble harder. He intended to send a special emissary to London, a personal envoy, without title or status. His man: Harry Hopkins...