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"Viscount Halifax" by Wooding, 1939-1940. Gouache and ink on board
"Viscount Halifax" by Wooding, 1939-1940
Catalogue ref: INF 3/47
Caricature of Viscount Halifax, Conservative Foreign Secretary between 1938 and1940 under Neville Chamberlain. Halifax was a supporter of Chamberlain's appeasement policies. He was strongly in favour of a negotiated settlement with Germany in May 1940 and was widely tipped to replace Chamberlain as Prime Minister.
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