Word: belisha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foreign Office and asked what he knew about the peace negotiations. London was naturally anxious. If peace were concluded, Germany's northern flank would be secure, the southern made more secure. The important Scandinavian neutrals-"Norway points like a pistol at the heart of England," wrote Leslie Hore-Belisha recently -would fall deep into Russo-German influence...
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has had bad luck with Cabinet Ministers whose Christian names are Leslie. Early this year War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha became such a bumptious headache that Mr. Chamberlain dismissed him. By last week Minister of Supply Leslie Burgin had caused so much trouble for the Government that London's censor-controlled newspapers suggested that the Prime Minister had better get rid of this Leslie...
...Prime Minister defended Viscount Halifax for censoring 44 lines out of a Britain-must-aid-Finland newspaper article by ousted War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha. This was done, explained Mr. Chamberlain, lest any reader think that Mr. Hore-Belisha was writing with "special authority." Two days later in Devonport the ousted Secretary, speaking as an ordinary M.P. to his constituents, spouted what were thought to be his censored lines, virtually called for Allied war on Russia to save Finland...
...Perhaps-though this was not yet demonstrable-they were the advance guard for Allied supplies or even an Allied expeditionary force for beleaguered Finland. The Papal daily Osservatore Romano in Vatican City credited this view, at least so far as supplies went. In England, erstwhile War Minister Leslie Hore-Belisha added color to the world's conjectures with a fighting (and uncensored) speech calling for instant Allied aid to Finland by land, air and sea. Admiral Nikolai Kuznetsov, handsome young top commissar of the Red Navy, was reported speeding to Murmansk, main base for Russia's northern Fleet...
...answer to a question on the present state of the war. Mr. Lewis said: "I regretted the resignation of Mr. Hore Belisha, because 1 felt that his resignation signified the abandonment of the "static war," so called, which among other people regarded as the bestrategy...