Word: belisha
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...walls hung with the colors of glorious regiments. Some, like Edward Angly and Walter Duranty, were correspondents for U. S. newspapers and wire services abroad. Others, like Ward Price, represented the press of Britain and her Empire. They had gathered to meet plump, fawn-faced Leslie Hore-Belisha, Secretary of State...
With a becoming beam, in clipped Oxford syllables, Hore-Belisha said that he was well aware they were most anxious to see fighting at the front. Unfortunately there had been some unavoidable delay while plans were made for transportation, billeting, supplies. As it was, "no caviar" awaited them; but the best possible arrangements had been worked out. All was now ready: they could leave tomorrow...
...emerged with the conclusion that the generals on both sides had bungled fantastically: wasted millions of lives, exhausted their national patrimonies, achieved virtually nothing except to end the war by exhaustion. Other military men raised their eye brows at some of his military teachings, but when Leslie Hore-Belisha became Secretary of State for War in 1937, he began to listen to Captain Liddell Hart's advice, began to mechanize the British Army, improve anti-aircraft defense (Britain had fewer anti-aircraft guns than in 1918 when air attack was much less developed), reduce the age and stuffiness...
...British War Secretary, Leslie Hore-Belisha, made a quick trip to Paris. Two days later the French members of the Supreme War Council, Premier Edouard Daladier and Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin, accompanied by several aides, flew secretly to England and met "somewhere in Sussex," in a quiet town hall, with their British colleagues. Munitions and food supply were said to have been the chief agenda. French mobilization was announced as having been finally completed (after 17 days of war), with 3,500,000 men under arms in a zone 15 to 30 miles deep behind the Maginot Line. Artillery pounding...
...Secretary: Leslie Hore-Belisha...