A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
SO many completely baseless legends have surrounded the visit of Lord Halifax to Germany that it may be well to state the actual facts about its origin, relatively unimportant though they are in themselves. The sequence of events is as plain and normal as it could well be. As long ago as May Mr. Eric Parker, the Editor of The Field, was approached by Prince Loewenstein, one of the organisers of the pro- jected International Hunting Exhibition at Berlin (a belated successor of a similar exhibition held in Vienna in t9 to), with a view to proper British representation being arranged. Mr. Parker rapidly got to work, and in the course of his activities formed a British Committee of Honour, which included a number of prominent sportsmen like the Duke of Beaufort, the Duke of Westminster, Lord Harewood, Lord Halifax, Lord Willingdon and many others. Early last month, a little before the date of opening, Mr. Parker was asked to transmit invitations to visit the exhibition to a number of suitable recipients, and they were sent, as a matter of course, to all members of the Committee of Honour. Lord Halifax, as a member of that Committee, said he would- very much like to go if his engagements permitted, and a few days later he was able to say that they did.
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