WISE AND FAR-SIGHTED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 9, 11 January 1941, Page 9

WISE AND FAR-SIGHTED

APPOINTMENT OF LORD HALIFAX

MIXING OF NATIONS' AFFAIRS

(British Official Wireless.) (Received January 11, 11 a.m.)

RUGBY, January 10

"The Times," commenting editorially on Lord Halifax's appointment as Ambassador to the United States, describes as unprecedented but also wise and far-sighted an arrangement whereby a share in the government of Britain is committed to a statesman who will live among the American people and in. immediate contact with the President and his Ministers.

"Another and most welcome step forward is taken," says "The Times," "in that process between the two countries which Mr. Churchill has defined as mixing their affairs up together. Lord Halifax does not go to Washington to persuade the American. Government to any policy it would not follow of its own accord, nor will the President or the State Department bring any influence to bear upon him with the intention of deflecting the course of Britain. The two countries have in common the resolution to pursue the same supreme purpose, which is to win and afterwards to use the opportunity to rebuild the world on those principles of freedom and human rights which both, revere and the dictators blaspheme. In their diplomatic relations, their principal and almost their only need is for the fullest possible understanding."