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Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG OM GCSI GCMG
GCIE TD PC (16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959), styled Lord Irwin
from 1925 until 1934 and Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was
one of the most senior British Conservative politicians of the 1930s.
He held several senior ministerial posts during this time, most
notably those of Viceroy of India from 1925 to 1931 and of Foreign
Secretary between 1938 and 1940. He is regarded as one of the
architects of the policy of appeasement prior to the Second World
War. From 1941 to 1946, he served as British Ambassador in
Washington...
...In
November 1937, Halifax went to Germany at the invitation of Hermann
Göring on the pretext of a hunting exhibition (Göring was a
passionate hunter and gave Halifax the nickname Halalifax, after
Halali!, a German hunting call), but Halifax was publicly and
correctly regarded as acting on behalf of the British government to
renew dialogue with the German government. A long and barbed meeting
with Adolf Hitler ensued. On meeting the Führer, Halifax almost
created an incident by nearly handing his coat to him, believing him
to be a footman: "As I looked out of the car window, on eye
level, I saw in the middle of this swept path a pair of black
trousered legs, finishing up in silk socks and pumps. I assumed this
was a footman who had come down to help me out of the car and up the
steps, and was proceeding in leisurely fashion to get myself out of
the car when I heard Von Neurath or somebody throwing a hoarse
whisper at my ear of ‘Der Führer, der Führer’; and it then
dawned upon me that the legs were not the legs of a footman, but of
Hitler". In discussions Halifax ignored Eden's reservations and
indicated clearly to Hitler that German designs on Austria and parts
of Czechoslovakia and Poland were not regarded as illegitimate by the
British, but that only peaceful processes of change would be
acceptable. Writing to Baldwin on the subject of the conversation
between Karl Burckhardt (the League of Nations' Commissioner of
Danzig) and Hitler, Halifax said, "Nationalism and Racialism is
a powerful force but I can't feel that it's either unnatural or
immoral! I cannot myself doubt that these fellows are genuine haters
of Communism etc.! And I daresay if we were in their position we
might feel the same!"
The
following year Eden resigned, exasperated by the continued
interference of the Prime Minister in foreign affairs and his
increasingly determined policy of appeasement (particularly of Benito
Mussolini, whom Eden regarded as an untrustworthy gangster). For
Halifax, as for Chamberlain and the Chiefs of Staff, every effort had
to be made to prevent an alignment of the three great threats to
peace and the British Empire: Italy, Germany and Japan. Halifax
replaced Eden asForeign Secretary in February 1938.