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Nicholas Shakespeare Lord Halifax to accept the Prime Ministership, despite being the favourite of Chamberlain, the King, and Conservative and Labour MPs, was, according to Shakespeare, rooted in his infatuation with Lord Curzon's youngest daughter, Lady Alexandra "Baba" Metcalfe. Among new archival material that Shakespeare discovered (in the Salisbury family archives at Hatfield House) was the "Lindsay Memorandum", a three-page type-written document which Captain Martin Lindsay, immediately back from Norway, presented to the Labour leader Clement Attlee on 8 May 1940, and which tilted Labour to demand a division of the House of Commons during the procedural debate on the Whitsun recess.