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...names that stud the Churchill Cabinet-Ambassador to the U.S. Lord Halifax, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood, War Secretary Captain David Margesson and others-seem to many Britons touched with the odor of Munich. Last week the growth of discontent in Britain could be measured in figures. A Gallup poll recorded that only 29% of the citizens polled felt that their country was making the most of its opportunities, only 44% were satisfied with the Government's war conduct. (Even after the disaster of Crete 58% were satisfied with the war effort...
...bitterly why Britain had done so little to help the best-armed ally she has had. They questioned Churchill's decision not to speak freely to Parliament about the war on the Eastern Front. They marveled that a member of the British Cabinet should openly say, as Viscount Halifax had said in Washington this month, that Britain is unable to make any attack on the Continent...
...without triumphing once more as a raconteur. He told how he had "pricked up these old ears" in a London police station at the accent of the boy ahead of him, found he was 21-year-old Steve Traski from Jersey City, who had shipped three times out of Halifax, been torpedoed twice before he finally got to London to enlist with the Free French. His parents were Czechs...
Both in London and Washington the rumor ran that Britain's Ambassador had returned to pack his bags, wait for his successor to be announced. If Lord Halifax had heard the rumor, he did not let on. He called at the White House, spent 50 minutes talking with the President. Said he: "We exchanged impressions. . . ." Asked about a report that Russia may be considering a separate peace with Germany, he answered flatly: "There is absolutely no sign of that...
Said Lord Halifax: "I say, what is a World Series?" Reporter Fred Pasley of the isolationist New York Daily News told him, slyly added: "It is something like your cricket-only different...