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Every working afternoon at 3 o'clock Lord Halifax strides, in his stooping glide, into the Governors' Room, puts a battered, black suitcase on the conference table, and spills out documents giving the secret, depressing details of Britain's economic position. Halifax is chairman of the British delegation, but Lord Keynes does nearly all the talking. Halifax, chin in hand, listens with an air of attentive patience, occasionally lifts his eyes in amazement at Economist Keynes's memory for facts & figures. Their associate, Sir Henry Self, who looks like an Irish patriot's caricature...
Knowing that some Americans would find these comparisons beside the point, British Ambassador Lord Halifax took another line. He said that Britain's 47 million people could not live unless they exported to pay for imports and they could not export in prewar quantities unless the U.S. lent them money for ships and machines. Without a loan, Britain would struggle along as best she could, trading within her own sterling area. Result: U.S. and world trade would suffer...
Jimmy Byrnes thus cleared the air for conversations in Washington this week with British envoys (Ambassador Halifax and Lord Keynes) seeking credits or other means to take up where Lend-Lease left...
When the munitions ship Mont Blanc exploded in the harbor of Halifax, N.S. on Dec. 6, 1917, the shock was felt more than 150 miles away. The explosion killed more than 1,100, laid waste two square miles of the city. The Mont Blanc carried 3,000 tons of TNT. The single atomic bomb which fell on Hiroshima in Japan this week exploded with approximately seven times the force of that tremendous charge...
Peace with Justice. Vandenberg spoke the next day. Again the gallery was crowded, and once again Lord Halifax sat in the front row, listening intently. Vandenberg was the man who had once led some Republicans in the ways of strict isolation...