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...There was so much to do, and so little time," said Minister Hore-Belisha last week. "The new appointments can only be regarded as unconventional if rotation is taken as the standard. It cannot be the standard in any live organization...
Field Marshal Sir Cyril John Deverell, 63, and four other elderly British generals called by request at the War Office in London last week, stepped one by one into the private office of Leslie Hore-Belisha and handed in their resignations. Almost immediately came word that 50 other general officers had been passed over to make way for new Chief of the Imperial General Staff Major General John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker Viscount Gort...
...merit instead of by seniority, a new Army Council on which Territorial (National Guard) officers would sit for the first time, increased pay and better living conditions for both officers and men. The equivalent of reviving David Lloyd George's War-time Ministry of Munitions, Secretary Hore-Belisha achieved by appointing Vice Admiral Sir Harold Arthur Brown, Director General of Munitions Production, to the additional post of Master General of the Ordnance...
Speaking to a group of army cooking experts at England's military training ground, Aldershot, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Britain's bachelor Secretary of State for War, said: "I hope you men will spread a love of cooking to your wives, because my own requirements in that respect are so exacting that I have never been able to find a wife to come up to that standard." Cracked a Tommy: "Join the army...
...sportsmanship assured him a great cheer. Mr. Chamberlain heartily laughed off such Labor questions about his recent exchange of personal missives on Spain with Benito Mussolini (TIME, Aug. 9) as: "Could these letters properly be described as love letters?" The House was told by British War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha what has long been known and frequently denied, that the Spanish Rightists have installed artillery commanding Britain's chief Mediterranean base. "The guns on the Strait of Gibraltar," said Mr. Hore-Belisha, "are of various calibres from 12-inch howitzers downward...