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...brightest young men in the present British Government is dapper, self-confident Major Leslie Hore-Belisha. With a fine record as Financial Secretary to the Treasury under Neville Chamberlain, he was made Minister of Transport in June when Press and Government began worrying about the alarming number of fatal automobile accidents in Britain. During most of the summer they have averaged about 150 a week...
Minister Hore-Belisha installed many a new traffic light, many an extra safety island for pedestrians. Then he issued a clarion call to the public...
Whatever the King's subject accustomed to a ''Free British Meal Table" may think of the new tariff barriers raised by the Ottawa Conference, it seemed last week the best of all possible pacts to Leslie Hore-Belisha, Financial Secretary of the Treasury. Said he: "Failure of the Ottawa Conference would have meant the end of the Empire. . . . Dissolution of the British Empire would have meant dissolution of the world. . . . We have avoided that...
...general spirit of uneasiness and dissent within the party was made evident, however, when a Major Hore-Belisha slapped a man named Pringle publicly across the mouth, because he had groundlessly accused the Major of writing a certain anonymous newspaper article...