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Onetime Secretary for War Leslie Hore-Belisha had tried to start an argument by insisting that Britain's war effort was far from maximum, that its intelligence service was inept. The Prime Minister scornfully said of Hore-Belisha: "With all good wishes, I think he sometimes stands in need of some humility in regard to the past." Mortified, Hore-Belisha rose to defend himself but was drowned out by guffaws. Churchill went on to say that Britain now produces more tanks every month than the nation owned when Hore-Belisha left the War Office. "Our intelligence service," he added...
...Cato" is the pseudonym of the author of Guilty Men (TIME, Sept. 30), a crushing arraignment of Britain's high-placed political bunglers. Some guessed that "Cato" might be Newsman Michael Foote of the Evening Standard, H. G. Wells, Lord Beaverbrook, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Alfred Duff Cooper, or the Prime Minister's brash son Randolph Churchill. Actor Vic Oliver, hitherto a dark horse in the guessing, is Winston Churchill...
...author of Guilty Men ("Cato") shrouds himself, for reasons which nobody seems to know, in a thick British fog. He has been guessed to be Winston Church ill's son Randolph, H. G. Wells, Lord Beaverbrook, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Alfred Duff Cooper. All flatly deny authorship. At any rate Guilty Men is terse, biting, sometimes eloquent, gives every appear ance of careful, responsible judgment. The charges are not new. But the total indictment is terrible. Guilty Men is headed by a cast sheet of villains. Among them: Ramsay MacDonald, Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, Neville Chamberlain, Sir John Simon...
...jobs that he performed just before the war made him the best-posted, all-around officer Britain has. The first was Commander of the Mobile Division in 1937-38. Just when he had mastered tank, antitank and armored car technique, for which he had great enthusiasm, War Secretary Hore-Belisha switched him into the Anti-Aircraft Corps Command. He found it a scratch bunch of guns without instruments, searchlights or coordination. In a year he smoothed and built it into seven highly efficient up-to-date divisions...
...face swollen and red from an encounter with a belligerent bee, former Secretary for War Leslie Hore-Belisha banged the speaker's stand in the House of Commons as he demanded "imagination and inspiring action" in settling the Irish question. "Hitler's triumph," he shouted, "can be prevented only by a united policy in Ireland. . . . [Germany's] occupation of Ireland would cover our only remaining flank and make the arrival of those supplies from America on which we are counting most hazardous...