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Britain. In the House of Commons, War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, during a debate on Britain's new mobilization procedure, announced new preparedness measures: British Army, Navy and Air Force reserves are to be called for one to six months' service for special training and to bring His Majesty's armed forces up to war strength, ready "if necessary to take the field at short notice." Said dramatic Mr. Hore-Belisha: "It is a time when the nation must sleep on its haversacks...
...Britain, however, they do things differently. Last week Secretary for War Leslie Hore-Belisha, the man who is rated the livest live wire in the Chamberlain Cabinet, rose in Parliament to declare that the antiaircraft equipment of London during last September's crisis was in an utterly chaotic state. Mr. Hore-Belisha added many unpleasant details...
...that just such guns were in order has been one of Mr. Hore-Belisha's special responsibilities for the past year. Furthermore, had a Hyde Park soap-boxer, any British newspaper publisher or even any member of Parliament revealed such a horrendous condition, he would have been clapped in jail under the Official Secrets Act. What happened to Mr. Hore-Belisha was nothing. His Government immediately got the second vote of confidence in two days (355-to-130), and the War Secretary prepared to send a "simple memorandum" of instructions to section commanders about how to behave in future...
Britain's dynamic, ambitious War Secretary, Leslie Hore-Belisha, who last year put through a tradition-shattering shake-up of the Regular Army, last week suddenly announced complete reorganization of the nation's home defense force, the 200,000-man volunteer Territorial Army...
Main drawback to Hore-Belisha's scheme to mechanize and equip this reorganized army is lack of weapons. Because of Britain's still-lagging rearmament program, even the Regular Army is not adequately supplied with heavy machine guns, anti-tank and antiaircraft devices, and observers are of the opinion that it will be many months before sufficient arms can be spared for the Terriers...