Word: halifax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Never since World War II started has there been less gun-firing and more tongue-clattering than last week. One after another, high-calibre speechmakers like Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler, George VI, Albert Lebrun, Georgi Dimitroff, Clement Attlee, the Pope, Viscount Halifax, the King of the Belgians, the Queen of The Netherlands, Neville Chamberlain plus generals, dopesters and yes-men sounded off, until old David Lloyd George complained that you did not ask who was winning the war nowadays, but who had said what...
Addressing a private conference of Laborite M. P.s, Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition Clement R. Attlee put first on his list of Opposition aims the idea of federation. Next day Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax broadcast to the world what were supposed to be Britain's official aims-and federation was not among them...
Extenuating Circumstances. Harking back to Lord Curzon, British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax, in a House of Lords debate, practically made an official declaration that Russia is welcome to that part of Poland now under the hammer-&-sickle...
...last thing I would want to do would be to defend the action of the Soviet Government at the particular time at which they took it," said Lord Halifax, "but it is right to remember two things...
...following up the sell-out achieved by his collected messages to his chief while Ambassador to Germany, Sir Nevile Henderson authored another White Paper. It was a 12,000-word first-hand study of Hitler, the Nazis and the Germans, written as his final report to Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax. Perceptive, witty and compassionate as a Jane Austen novel or a Lytton Strachey biography, it steered hard away from the old 1914 concept of the Germans as Huns or their ruler as The Beast of Berlin. Instead, it described them as understandable dupes and Hitler as a powerful but pitiable...