Word: halifax
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...many apprehensive Americans in xenophobic 1941, the new British ambassador, Lord Halifax, was unwelcome...
After five years and four months of Halifax, the U.S. knew him better. He had ridden out boos and picket lines. In Detroit, when angry, isolationist groups of U.S. mothers had thrown eggs and tomatoes at him, Lord Halifax had replied: "Let them have a good time for their money." The Nazis had killed one of his three sons in Egypt; another had lost both legs in the battle of Alamein. The U.S. gradually came to respect, and almost to like, his stiff upper...
...results were sometimes as painful as the pictures of Coolidge in an Indian war bonnet. Lord Halifax remained just as quiet, just as impenetrable, just as incomprehensible to the nation's Brooklyns and Broadways. Halifax never said or did anything very startling, but his patient kindness, that at first seemed to some the mere mask of condescension, convinced the U.S. at last that it was the genuine article. The U.S. decided that Halifax would never be at home in a ball park, but he was good goods. Brooklyn and Broadway knew that he could take it. Now that...
...Evasive Action." This week, Lord Halifax made a farewell speech before the Pilgrims society in Manhattan. Said he: "I felt I could not pretend to any knowledge of this vast and varied country unless I had seen as much of all of it as was compatible with the claims of my work in Washington. ... By travel I acquired a truer sense of proportion about Anglo-American relations, about my work, and even about myself...
...ever seen-to end the British Raj, the grand and guilty edifice built and maintained by William Hawkins and Robert Clive, Warren Hastings and the Marquess Wellesley, the brawling editor James Silk Buckingham and the canny merchant Lord Inchcape, and by the great Viceroys, austere Curzon and gentle Halifax. The Raj was finished: scarcely a voice in Britain spoke against independence; scarcely an Indian wanted the British to stay; scarcely a leader in India questioned the sincerity of Britain's intention to get out. The only questions were "when...