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Probably no other British consul ever became as popular in Philadelphia, San Francisco and Manhattan as did ruddy Sir Gerald Campbell, whose after-dinner stories have made hundreds of prominent U. S. businessmen slap their thighs. Canny Winston Churchill, having already picked Viscount Halifax as Ambassador to the U. S., last week plucked ebullient Sir Gerald from Ottawa, where he has lately been serving as High Commissioner* for the Mother Country, and assigned him to Washington-obviously as the perfect foil to austere, pallid, pious Lord Halifax...
Prime Minister Churchill devoted particular attention to courting U. S. good will last week. He inspected the first American Motorized Squadron of the British Home Guard, a unit of 75 officers and men. The same day he said good-by to former Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax, whom he is sending to serve as His Majesty's Ambassador in Washington. Speaking at a luncheon of the Anglo-U. S. Pilgrims Society, he was at pains to point out for the U. S. benefit that, whatever Lord Halifax once was, he is no longer rated an appeaser: "Our choice . . . commands...
...solemn pronouncement was an implied charge to Viscount Halifax, now ambassador to Washington...
...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 Halifax certainly represented the old Britain. But in London there was a feeling that Lord Halifax would be fine...
...might be one to change the whole future of Britain's history. And he thought back to the day in 1926 when Stanley Baldwin offered him the Viceroyalty of India. At that time he went at once to ask the advice of his aged father, the late 2nd Viscount Halifax. His father took him straightway to church. Together the two prayed. When they came out, the father said: "I think you really have to go, Edward." Edward said: "I think...