To many apprehensive Americans in xenophobic 1941, the new British ambassador, Lord Halifax, was unwelcome. He was too aloof, too much the quiet, impenetrable aristocrat. He was not in any sense a guy ...
The U. S. has never had a clear impression of Lord Halifax. A Tory and fox-hunting gentleman, Britain’s Foreign Secretary at the time of Munich, he seemed out of place in Britain’s War Cabinet. Thus ...
“The sympathy of all Christians must go out to the persecuted people, the Jews,” Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to the United States, declared here yesterday in an impromptu address delivered at the ...
A delegation of the Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs, calling upon British Ambassador Lord Halifax to extend greetings, today made representations against some aspects of British policy in ...