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Tall, reedy, gentle, devoutly religious and pro-German is Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Viscount Halifax of Monk Bretton in the West Riding of York, Baron Irwin of Kirby Underdale York, Knight of the Garter, onetime Viceroy of India (TIME, May u, 1931, et ante), today Lord President of the Council and Government Leader in the House of Lords. In London, the abrupt decision of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that Lord Halifax should go to visit Adolf Hitler last week came more & more to be regarded as a "humiliation" to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who is not pro-German...
...German campaign of territorial expansion in the East [Austria, Czechoslovakia, Russia] if by that means Germany could for the time being be diverted from exploiting her nuisance value in other directions [colonies]. Accordingly it requires no great exercise of the imagination to conjecture that Hitler at his meeting with Viscount Halifax will test the ground for some such policy." To the Chamberlainian Daily Telegraph'?, sharp rebuke for printing this rumor, the Edenesque Yorkshire Post sharply retorted that its information was from a "reliable source...
...House of Lords, prominent Jewish and Labor peers surprisingly outdid themselves in speeches calculated to dispose Adolf Hitler favorably to touch wood, that is Lord Halifax. One of Britain's top Jews, Viscount Samuel urged in the House of Lords that Germany be explicitly absolved of her 1914 "War guilt," that her former colonies be returned, and that the Covenant of the League of Nations be detached from the Treaty of Versailles in hopes of getting the Reich to rejoin the League...
Among Germans last week the news from London of dissension in the British Cabinet and fawning in the House of Lords produced an immediately stiffened attitude toward Lord Halifax. British references to the Viscount's visit as one of "exploration" caused a whole string of Nazi news-organs-reciting the words of the official Nazi press service-to retort: "Adolf Hitler's Germany needs no 'exploration.' The German position is perfectly clear. 'Explorations' might better be sent into the jungle of England's own policy...
...Security. A visit of state is ipso facto not a business visit, but Leopold III is expected to busy himself finding out what the British Government mean by a startling decision they took last week. This was to send to visit Adolf Hitler this week the notably pro-German Viscount Halifax, whose Cabinet post is Lord President of the Council. With all Europe assuming that Halifax & Hitler will talk over Germany's demands for colonial territory; her aspirations in Austria and Czechoslovakia; and her intentions toward Soviet Russia, now that Germany, Italy and Japan have made an anti-Communist...