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Parliament greeted the pact with solemn rejoicing. In the House of Lords Viscount Cecil of Chelwood called it an "extremely vivid contrast to the German Government's 'New Order.' " Only a few of the Lords had reservations about Ethiopia's new freedom. Though Anthony Eden had assured the House of Commons that Haile Selassie had promised to abolish slavery just as soon as possible, some of their Lordships wanted to know why the pact was signed before the emancipation was a fact...
Deanna Durbin came out of two months of obscurity to announce that she was going to England with Husband Vaughn Paul to entertain troops and war workers. The 20-year-old singer, who has been idle ever since Universal suspended her in October, said Viscount Halifax had invited...
...Viscount Halifax perched atop a tank, toured a proving ground at Eddystone, Pa., clutching a gun snout for support, later whipped around the field at 40 m.p.h. inside the tank, declared the posting was a cinch...
Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Britain's Ambassador to Washington, Viscount Halifax, signed the agreement on Oct. 17. Marked "confidential" by the State Department, it was sent to the Senate on Oct. 3 1, with an urgent letter from President Roosevelt. But Congress was busy wrestling with the Neutrality...
...wondered 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...