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Died. Lord Hore-Belisha, 63, bustling onetime (1937-40) British Secretary of State for War, who instituted a sweeping democratization of the army (e.g., more chance for promotion from the ranks, better uniforms, restaurants open to Tommies as well as officers, equal allotments for mistresses and wives), got himself sacked for his brashness by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, fell into political decline; of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered while he was delivering a speech on Franco-British unity; in Reims, France. Hore-Belisha did much to prod his nation into preparedness, probably will be recalled by most Britons for his term...
...sculptors. Last week an accolade came to Epstein which should convince him that the world now acknowledges him both as an artist and as a public figure of standing and respect. In a New Year's Honors List which also included a barony for longtime Cabinet Minister Leslie Hore-Belisha and knighthoods for 84-year-old Comedian George Robey and ex-Foreign Office News Chief William Ridsdale. Queen Elizabeth II made Epstein a Knight Commander Order of the British Empire. From now on Jacob Epstein, born 73 years ago on Manhattan's lower East Side, a British subject...
Viceroys & Mailboxes. To regain official favor and explode the notion that Britain is washed out as a great power, the British had brought up big guns like Lord Temple-wood and ex-War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, scheduled ex-Viceroy of India Lord Linlithgow to follow. Said Lord Templewood last week: "Enemies point to our war wounds and say that we are already dead or dying. ... If you want a good tip, my British fellow countrymen and my Argentine friends, put your money again on the horse that so often won in the past and is still capable of running...
...proposal for a Western Bloc, which many Britons want but do not want to talk about, bounced up onto the floor of the House of Commons last week. It was tossed there by candid, portly Leslie Hore-Belisha, former Secretary of State for War, who urged the House to consider "an offer by Belgium to give us some kind of strategic outposts and economic outposts as well, similar to those we give the United States in the West Indies...
Married. Leslie Hore-Belisha, 45, onetime British War Secretary (1937-40) and Cynthia Elliott, 29, repatriated British war nurse; at Norbiton, Surrey. Long a confirmed bachelor, he once vowed that he would never marry because no woman could cook like his mother...