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Britain's Ambassador to the U.S., lean, cadaverous Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Viscount Halifax, returned to Washington last week. He flew in after a hasty trip to London, where he had talked things over with Winston Churchill. What his future was to be had Washington puzzled...
...arrival was an odd contrast to that cold, rainy morning last January when he steamed up Chesapeake Bay on Britain's biggest battleship, to be met at Annapolis by Franklin Roosevelt. This time only a State Department emissary was on hand to greet Lord and Lady Halifax...
This fanfareless meeting did not mean that the Administration was chilly to Lord Halifax. It did mean that celebrity-loving citizens of the U.S. have found his Lordship a chill, unbending, colorless personality. The qualities which appeal most to his own countrymen-diffidence, reserve, intellectual honesty-make no impression on the U.S. masses...
...that there would be little point in having boat drills during that voyage across the Channel. "This ship is cradling eight-five thousand gallons of gasoline in her hold," he explained, "and the Boche channel subs may not want to play cricket with us." That was in Halifax, just before she left dock. One hour and a half before she was to reach Liverpool the man on the bridge spotted a red flare thrown from a fishing sloop. All hands rushed on deck to see what was up. It happened inside of three minutes: a submarine, taking its cue from...
...because our strength is so vital to the Allies. Certainly we should be eager to speed all aid to the anti-Nazi forces. But does that mean that we have no further duty or service to perform for the world? Can we not demand an explanation of why Lord Halifax opposses a federated Europe after the war, of Anthony Eden's return to the repressive principles of Versailles, of what kind of liberalism Mr. Churchill plans for England after the war--the same Mr. Churchill who a few years ago vilified the New Deal in public speeches? Is the demand...