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...dispatches to King Edward's week-end hideaway, Fort Belvedere, the instant they arrive instead of waiting for the evening messenger, whose duty it has always been to carry the day's dispatches to the King out of town. In deference to Minister of Transport Leslie Hore-Belisha's safety campaign (TIME, Sept. 10, 1934), the motorcycle messengers were expressly ordered to obey all traffic laws. Edward's new motorcyclists will be listed as King's Home Service Messengers and are not to be confused with the King's Messengers attached to the Foreign...
...disciple of British Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, the only foreign Fascist whose portrait hangs in Rome at Fascist Party headquarters. Like the good Fascist he is, Lord de Clifford bought himself some time ago an Italian supercharged Lancia in which to burn up the road between Belisha beacons. While doing so one night the Italian Lancia met a British Frazer-Nash head on and killed Douglas George Hopkins, the sporting secretary of the Frazer-Nash Car Club, who was driving with his sister Sheila and her friend Rosemary Reynolds. A constable verified from the wheel tracks the impression...
...People, particularly embusqués, are inclined to talk now of the bombing of London as a major operation of the War and shiver at the thought, whereas in fact only 670 were killed-a mere fleabite in these Belisha days. In 1928 more than double that number were killed [in traffic accidents] in the streets of London. Now the returns are astronomical, but because of the dangers of the streets I do not sleep under...
...irritated spectator of TIME'S subtle antiSemitism, the latest manifestation of which in the issue of Feb. 18, re Leslie Hore-Belisha, is too rank to pass unnoticed...
Leslie Hore-Belisha...