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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...
...imagine," said His Lordship. "I saw a match once, in Chicago." Then he mentioned that he had caught the first World Series game the day before, by radio. Said he: "I rather enjoyed it. The attendance...
...Marksmen Ed Wylie, of New York City, and S. L. Hutcheson, of Greenwich, Conn.: the North American .20-gauge and all-bore skeet championships, respectively; from a field of 114 shooters at the Remington Gun Club, Lordship, Conn. Both broke 100 straight...
...William Joyce. . . ." If his father's death had anything to do with his decision to abandon his incognito, he did not say so. Instead, he explained that he had dropped it to answer a series of London newspaper stories calling him a common spy. Said his indignant Lordship: "All these imputations I disregard as garbage...
Three thousand miles away in the U. S., where there had been much talk of a new Britain run for little men by liberal men, there was some surprise at this choice: a Lordship, a Tory, an old Etonian, a man once associated with Chamberlain and the Cliveden set and that horrid word, appeasement. There were old-fashioned family tie-ups: the only other Foreign Secretary who subsequently became Ambassador to the U. S., Viscount Grey of Fallodon, was Lord Halifax's third cousin, and the man named to succeed him, Anthony Eden, is also his third cousin.* Lord...