Word: halifax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over Europe, never again to be relit in his time. The late August moon rode alone over a darkened city whose street intersections were marked only by thin crosses cut in the black paper masking their traffic lights. Dim blue bulbs picked out busses and subway entrances. Lord Halifax, returning across Downing Street from No. 10 to the Foreign Office after a night broadcast, could not find the keyhole, had to strike matches. In Hyde Park, antiaircraft crews stood by their guns through the small hours. Frank Frewin Pinnock, 50, a London businessman arrested for reckless driving after a motor...
Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax was India's kindly Viceroy in Saint Gandhi's brightest days as India's great passive resister. Perhaps in a pinch now, Saint Gandhi would recognize not his inner voice but the voice of Halifax...
...Meantime, sea-loving Franklin Roosevelt journeyed the farthest north that he had been while President. Dogged by fogs which delayed the comings & goings of his mail planes, he cruised on the Tuscaloosa to Halifax and Sydney, N. S., thence to Bay of Islands and Bonne Bay, Newfoundland. Not since he and his cousin Gracie Hall Roosevelt went there in 1908 had he fished for salmon in the gorge of Newfoundland's Humber River. Water and weather were perfect but Fisherman Roosevelt landed no salmon after trying all day. Brigadier General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson got the party...
...Fish sailed (as leader of the U. S. delegation of four Senators and 24 Representatives) for the annual meeting of the Interparliamentary Union at Oslo (TIME, Sept. 13, 1937). By the time he reached Berlin, he had to admit having talked with some people (including British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax and French Premier Edouard Daladier) who thought there might be a war. "I myself," he said, "do not believe it, or my family would not be here." If invited to arbitrate the Danzig dispute, he said, he would gladly accept...
...papers reprinted parts of the letter (leaving out most of the above quotations) and Dr. Goebbels devoted 3,800 words to a scorching front-page reply. Gist of it was that Commander King-Hall was working for Britain's newly founded propaganda ministry and that Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax had helped him to compose the letter. In Rome, Fascism's mouthpiece, Virginio Gayda, dutifully echoed this view, took huffy exception to the Commander's reflections on the fighting qualities of the Italians, accused King-Hall of compromising the Anglo-Italian pact of 1938. But Editor Gayda could...