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...Prime Minister defended Viscount Halifax for censoring 44 lines out of a Britain-must-aid-Finland newspaper article by ousted War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha. This was done, explained Mr. Chamberlain, lest any reader think that Mr. Hore-Belisha was writing with "special authority." Two days later in Devonport the ousted Secretary, speaking as an ordinary M.P. to his constituents, spouted what were thought to be his censored lines, virtually called for Allied war on Russia to save Finland...
Minister Cross's speech hit the House of Commons as it lolled in what one Parliamentarian called "the genial vacuum of emotion" left behind War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha's sudden resignation. Out of the speech leaped one lightning sentence which made the vacuum crumple in a thunder of applause: "At the end of four-and-one-half months, Germany is in something like the same economic stress that she was in after two years of the last...
...breakfast one morning last week, hustled over to reach Westminster at 8 a.m. wearing an expectant grin. Other M. P.s, equally eager to squeeze into their House, which is much too small to seat all of them, were already jampacked around the door. They half-hoped that Leslie Hore-Belisha, recently ousted British War Secretary (TIME, Jan. 15), would clash with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in the first really hot House of Commons debate since outbreak...
Actually there had been a usual and very British adjustment of the whole affair behind the scenes, but London editors, whom Mr. Hore-Belisha had made his best press agents, had given the affair a fine buildup. Cartoonists had a field day (see cut). On this occasion Mr. Hore-Belisha may have regretted the warm friendship, for he saw that much the best thing for his political future is to retire quietly with a stiff British upper...
...answer to a question on the present state of the war. Mr. Lewis said: "I regretted the resignation of Mr. Hore Belisha, because 1 felt that his resignation signified the abandonment of the "static war," so called, which among other people regarded as the bestrategy...