"1st Earl of Halifax" Edward Wood hand Signed 2.5X4.5 Card For Sale

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"1st Earl of Halifax" Edward Wood hand Signed 2.5X4.5 Card:
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Up for sale the "1st Earl of Halifax" Edward Wood hand Signed 2.5X4.5 Card.

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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 a senior British Conservative politician

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 was one of the architects of the policy of appeasement

of Adolf Hitler

in 1936–38, working closely with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. However, after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia

in March 1939 he was one of those who pushed for a new policy of attempting to

deter further German aggression by promising to go to war to defend Poland. On Chamberlain's resignation early

in May 1940, Halifax effectively declined the position of Prime Minister as he

felt that Churchill would be a more suitable war leader (his membership of the House of

Lords was given as the official reason). A few weeks later, with the

Allies facing apparently catastrophic defeat and British forces falling back to

Dunkirk,

Halifax favoured approaching Italy

to see if acceptable peace terms could be negotiated. He was overruled by

Churchill after a series of stormy meetings of the War Cabinet. From 1941 to 1946, he served

as British

Ambassador in Washington.

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