Exactly. In the meantime, Tennant seems to have been a bit of a butterfly, flirting around his social set in London with his tales of mayhem and disorganisation...and Walter Monckton, who he appears to have spoken to at least once - Monckton requiring corroboration of what he had been told - was a relative.the tenure is the question
Meanwhile...even though the full Cabinet had voted with Churchill to reject Hitler's peace offer via Mussolini during the Dunkirk evacuation...it seems that Halifax was still manouvering below the surface. There seems to have been a degree of exploration of various peace options with the German Ambassador in Washington by Lord Lothian, the British Ambassador - and on July 20th the German ambassador cabled home for clarification and instructions...
However, by then the British were intercepting and decrypting German diplomatic cyphers, and Churchill was woken to a copy of this cable. He immediately ordered Halifax to order the ambassador to Washington to have no further contact with his german counterpart...AND Churchill cabled Lord Lothian directly with the same edict...
...which means that just days after Halifax was forced to by Cabinet decision to initial stern Foreign Office rejection of German peace feelers from the Papal Nuncio in Berne, Dr. Salazar in Lisbon and the Finnish Prime Minister which were at the heart of the offer via Mussolini...Halifax' man in American was still keeping someone's options open...
