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 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 ...

This week (May 9) in 1940, in a meeting between British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax and First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, Churchill did ...

More than a fortnight ago a British battleship cleared from an undisclosed British port, carrying a tall, grave Englishman on a weighty mission. That mission might well turn out to be as important as ...

At the head of title: The Newcomen society. American branch. "First printing: May 1942." siris_sil_243539 ...