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Last week the remarkable Inverchapel landed at Halifax, on his way to Washington as Britain's new ambassador to the U.S. There the Scottish peer uncorked a characteristic shocker. "Cricket is a dull game," said Inverchapel gravely, "I prefer spilikins [jackstraws]." Baseball, peanuts, hot dogs and slang, he added, were more to his liking...
Canada's housing shortage is holding up many marriages. But it has not proved an obstacle to motherhood. In cities across the country the illegitimacy rate is rising. Halifax reported twice as many bastards in 1945 as in 1936; Edmonton's rate was up 8%; in Winnipeg one out of every 13 babies was illegitimate; in Regina one of every four...
Four years of bitter war and a year of uncertain peace had passed since the battleship King George V slipped into Annapolis, carrying Lord Halifax to his new post as war-torn London's Ambassador to Washington. Last week, on the eve of homegoing and retirement, the tall, mild statesman looked into the troublous future, saw Anglo-American friendship as "a patch of good firm ground on which we can stand and be secure." Said...
...haven't seen a steak like that in the club for two years.' ... I might add the memory of a man who wrote to my son after a similar informal gathering: 'I always thought the British were apt to outsmart us until I listened to Lord Halifax. Now I know it is not true...
...level Washington could best evaluate Halifax's long mission, and how well he had accomplished it-in Lend-Lease, joint command, victory and the possibility of United Nations. He had certainly done his best. History might yet surprise the newspapers by writing him down as one of the great ambassadors. The U.S. he was leaving would remember him as a good...