Word: creation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aggressiveness "pushy." Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood has been especially vexed at War Secretary Hore-Belisha's bland assumption that R. A. F. units in France ought to be subordinated to the Army as soon as possible. In fact, what Leslie Hore-Belisha has been after is the creation of a Defense Ministry-with the Army, Navy and Air Force all subordinate to one able go-getter. This might be a good idea. But coming from Hore-Belisha, who so obviously thought himself the man for the job, it struck the British Cabinet as insufferably bumptious...