E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881-1959) was a British politician. Throughout his career, he served as Viceroy of India (1926-1929), Foreign Secretary in the Chamberlain and Churchill governments (1938-1940), and ambassador to the United States (1940-1946).

Halifax's left arm was withered at birth, and a left hand had never developed.

Lord Halifax in Worldwar
Lord Halifax (1881-1959) was the British Ambassador to the United States during World War II and the war with the Race.

Halifax had been an architect of appeasement of Adolf Hitler in Neville Chamberlain's government. Although a member of the Conservative Party, he and Chamberlain's successor, Winston Churchill, did not get along very well, and so Halifax was sent abroad. He was somewhat marginalized by Churchill's insistence on maintaining tight supervision over Anglo-American affairs during the war with Germany. Churchill maintained this supervision even when the Race invaded in 1942.

Halifax participated in the Anglo-American-Soviet summit in New York City in 1943. Here he was introduced to Vyacheslav Molotov, who secretly disdained Halifax for his history of appeasement. Halifax expressed his wish that a policy of balance be achieved once major Earth powers showed that they too had atomic bombs and could use them effectively against the Race. His colleague, Lord Beaverbrook, noted that, because the Race's Colonization Fleet was already on its way, such a policy would be difficult to implement.

Lord Halifax in Southern Victory
Lord Halifax was the British ambassador to the Confederate States. He had a somewhat rocky personal relationship with President Jake Featherston. Nevertheless, he obtained for Featherston British assistance in the development of the superbomb, in exchange for Confederate expertise in rocketry.

On one occasion he tried to express reservations about Featherston's genocidal "Population Reduction" policies of exterminating the Confederacy's black population, but was rebuffed by the Confederate dictator. When the CS and UK cooperated in seizing Bermuda from the United States, he bluntly reminded Featherston that the black population of Bermuda were British subjects and were under the Crown's full protection.