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...Ottawa Journal editorial reviewed the ruckus over a recent speech on Empire policy by Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to the U.S., and came up with a refreshing commentary on pundits v. people. Said the Journal...
...Andrew Y. Y. Tsu, Bishop of Kunming, first Chinese Bishop in U.S. Episcopal history to assist at a consecration; the Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker. The two-and-a-half-hour ceremony was witnessed by some 3,000 people, including British Ambassador Lord Halifax and his Lady, Supreme Court Justices Owen J. Roberts, Stanley F. Reed, Robert H. Jackson, Felix Frankfurter...
...club's 4,850 members range from labor leaders to corporation executives. For a generation they have been soapboxed by speakers of every political shade, from Communist Earl Browder to Britain's conservative Lord Halifax. The club has heard every U.S. president since William McKinley, missing only Warren G. Harding (he died the day before he was to address it). Before it in 1932, Presidential Nominee Franklin Roosevelt made the famed speech which first blueprinted the New Deal...
Australians, twice committed to foreign wars along with Britain, increasingly insist that the whole Commonwealth should share in the making of British policy. Prime Minister Curtin has suggested an ambulant Empire Council with a permanent secretariat to frame policies. Lord Halifax, one of Britain's senior statesmen, was closer to Australian than to Canadian Government opinion when he suggested a common policy in which the Commonwealth would speak "not by a single voice but by the unison of many...
Congressman Robert Hale (Maine, R.) chatted with Lord Halifax at a British Embassy tea, felt himself pinched in the rear, turned gravely, found a woman who babbled that she had mistaken him for Justice Felix Frankfurter...