Word: belisha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief critical voice, as in the debate after the loss of Greece and Libya, was that of onetime Secretary for War Leslie Hore-Belisha. But for the most part he had only such dubious suggestions to make as that 100 more fighting planes would have turned the tide in Greece, and only such vague conclusions to draw as: "It is evident that in strategy there has been on our side no adjustment to the tempo or to the resources of the enemy. . . . I deem it my duty to warn the country that it is only by handling our problems with...
Labor Minister Ernest Bevin admitted: "We are behind with our airdromes and some of our factories." Onetime War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, who would undoubtedly like to be Prime Minister himself, declared: "Productivity in factories and docks is falling at an alarming rate. . . . The tempo of our effort cannot be considered adequate when five months have to elapse between the fire of London and the outlining of a scheme for the coordination of the fire brigades...
Onetime Secretary for War Leslie Hore-Belisha had tried to start an argument by insisting that Britain's war effort was far from maximum, that its intelligence service was inept. The Prime Minister scornfully said of Hore-Belisha: "With all good wishes, I think he sometimes stands in need of some humility in regard to the past." Mortified, Hore-Belisha rose to defend himself but was drowned out by guffaws. Churchill went on to say that Britain now produces more tanks every month than the nation owned when Hore-Belisha left the War Office. "Our intelligence service," he added...
...even Leslie Hore-Belisha gave him his vote while David Lloyd George abstained. Afterward the Prime Minister laughed heartily at a hoary story told by Independent M.P. Vernon Bartlett. It concerned two rabbits who were chased into their warren by two foxes...
...Cato" is the pseudonym of the author of Guilty Men (TIME, Sept. 30), a crushing arraignment of Britain's high-placed political bunglers. Some guessed that "Cato" might be Newsman Michael Foote of the Evening Standard, H. G. Wells, Lord Beaverbrook, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Alfred Duff Cooper, or the Prime Minister's brash son Randolph Churchill. Actor Vic Oliver, hitherto a dark horse in the guessing, is Winston Churchill...