Editing Byron White (section)

=== Oxford ===
On January 3, 1939, White departed to England aboard the [[SS Europa (1928)|SS ''Europa'']], arriving in [[Southampton]] on January 9 harassed by reporters wishing to see a "Yank at Oxford."{{Sfn|Hutchinson|1998|p=124–125}}<ref name="rdeaglwwtox">{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jQwkAAAAIBAJ&pg=3230%2C5832345 |newspaper=Reading Eagle |location=Pennsylvania |agency=United Press |title=Whizzer White leaves Pirates for Oxford, Eng |date=December 28, 1938 |page=14 |access-date=October 15, 2020 |archive-date=August 31, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831011156/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jQwkAAAAIBAJ&pg=3230%2C5832345 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="ppgstovr">{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mLhRAAAAIBAJ&pg=2665%2C3423632 |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |last=Sell |first=Jack |title=Whizzer stops over here on way to Oxford |date=December 28, 1938 |page=14 |access-date=October 15, 2020 |archive-date=August 31, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831084257/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mLhRAAAAIBAJ&pg=2665%2C3423632 |url-status=live }}</ref> Upon moving into Hertford College with the intent of studying law, he befriended the future mathematician [[George Piranian]] and was assigned with [[C. H. S. Fifoot]] as a tutor.{{Sfn|Hutchinson|1998|p=124, 127}} White spent his days at Oxford tirelessly studying from day until night, becoming "the only Rhodes scholar who ever worked fourteen hours a day on his studies."{{Sfn|Hutchinson|1998|p=129, 133}} During one [[Easter vacation]], he became acquainted with [[Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.|Joseph P. Kennedy]] and future U.S. president [[John F. Kennedy]] as their father, [[Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.|Joseph Kennedy]], was the [[United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom|U.S. ambassador]] to London.{{Sfn|Hutchinson|1998|p=133}} In the period of political upheaval just before the Second World War, Oxford students—Rhodes scholars especially—took an active role in international politics, with many American Rhodes scholars beckoning [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|President Roosevelt]] to take action against [[Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War)|Spanish nationalists]]. White, however, remained closed in the affairs of politics, rarely speaking out and becoming estranged from other students; he prioritized his studies and physique above all else.{{Sfn|Hutchinson|1998|p=135–136}}

Following the end of a term, White spent a summer vacation touring France and Germany, settling down in [[Munich]] in order to study the German language and [[Roman law]]. He unexpectedly reunited with John F. Kennedy, who was on his own tour of Europe with [[Torbert Macdonald]], and on one occasion the three were heckled by a mob who recognized their English [[Vehicle registration plates of the United Kingdom|license plates]]. White left Germany to return to Oxford in late August 1939. The war made it impossible for American students to continue studying at Oxford,{{Sfn|Hutchinson|1998|p=146}}<ref name="bvrrch39">{{cite news |date=October 4, 1939 |title=Byron White now student at Yale |page=8 |newspaper=Daily Times |location=Beaver and Rochester, Pennsylvania |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DakiAAAAIBAJ&pg=5777%2C1091018 |url-status=live |access-date=October 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831012216/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DakiAAAAIBAJ&pg=5777%2C1091018 |archive-date=August 31, 2021}}</ref> and White chose to return to American in order to continue his legal education at [[Yale Law School]].{{Sfn|Hutchinson|1998|p=140–141}}<ref name="wwjhout">{{cite news |date=October 3, 1939 |title=Whizzer White just hides out |page=12 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |agency=Associated Press |location=Spokane, Washington |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Af9VAAAAIBAJ&pg=3918%2C955319 |url-status=live |access-date=October 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211108182212/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Af9VAAAAIBAJ&pg=3918%2C955319 |archive-date=November 8, 2021}}</ref>