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...misser of tricks for the League. Realistic Neville Chamberlain, his friends intimated this week, is bossing Eden & Simon hardest only because they need the most bossing, is giving plenty of scope to his more active and realistic Cabinet colleagues, such as Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare, War Minister Leslie Hore-Belisha, Minister of Health Sir Kingsley Wood...
...insomnia of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin abated during his prolonged vacation (which had continued up to last week since last July), and he was back at No. 10 Downing Street to shake up the British Cabinet before it again faced the House of Commons. Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha, the smart, young Jewish Liberal who seems never to take a vacation but fills British newspapers all summer with personal publicity about his "Belisha Beacon" and other traffic gadgets (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934), was rewarded by promotion of his Ministry of Transport from sub-Cabinet to full Cabinet status. Minister of Agriculture...
...baiting" get a hold in Britain last week brought into London's Old Street Police Court doughty John Penfold, an auctioneer charged with warming up a London slum gathering with the words: "I'd turn all the Jews out of Britain! And I'd start with Hore-Belisha [Transport Minister], Sassoon [Undersecretary for Air] and Epstein [sculptor...
...Cheered announcements that 4,500 miles of main British motor roads are being "nationalized" by dynamic Minister of Transport Leslie Hore-Belisha. Today British motor cars do not stop dead, as they are supposed to do, before every "Belisha Beacon" at which pedestrians theoretically have the right-of-way to cross (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934), but Mr. Hore-Belisha is capitalizing on the publicity his beacons won to carry out vital reforms. Shocking is the fact that two-thirds of Britain's boasted "Great North Road" from London to Scotland is too narrow for two lanes of traffic. Hundreds...
...when the British Government took over the defaulted bonds of Newfoundland, there was a similar leak which made fortunes on Newfoundland bonds for a favored few. Among the biggest plungers then was the brokerage house of Belisha & Co., whose senior partner is the uncle of Minister of Transport Leslie Hore-Belisha. A potent partner in Belisha & Co. is Leslie Thomas, son of dumpy James Henry Thomas, Britain's Secretary of State for the Colonies. One of the first facts discovered about last month's Budget-leak scandal was that Belisha & Co. had taken out $20,000 worth...