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...brightest young men in the present British Government is dapper, self-confident Major Leslie Hore-Belisha. With a fine record as Financial Secretary to the Treasury under Neville Chamberlain, he was made Minister of Transport in June when Press and Government began worrying about the alarming number of fatal automobile accidents in Britain. During most of the summer they have averaged about 150 a week...
...Minister Hore-Belisha installed many a new traffic light, many an extra safety island for pedestrians. Then he issued a clarion call to the public...
Lately Minister Hore-Belisha, who is a light sleeper, has turned his attention to the problem of what to do about motorists who insist on sounding their horns, or hooters, late at night. Last fortnight Leslie Hore-Belisha sent bobbies out on their beats with orders to warn all motorists who hooted their hooters between 11:30 p. m. and 7 a. m. within a radius of five miles of Charing Cross. Last week he sent them out to arrest. Magistrates were told that it will cost scofflaws just $10 a hoot...
Fourth night of the new order Leslie Hore-Belisha spent driving up & down the streets of London with his ears pricked. He was delighted. Even taxi queues at the theatres were hootless. Home to a bath and breakfast, he announced to the Press that effective Sept. 16 the hootless night will be extended to all London and other urban areas throughout Britain. Explained...
Whatever the King's subject accustomed to a ''Free British Meal Table" may think of the new tariff barriers raised by the Ottawa Conference, it seemed last week the best of all possible pacts to Leslie Hore-Belisha, Financial Secretary of the Treasury. Said he: "Failure of the Ottawa Conference would have meant the end of the Empire. . . . Dissolution of the British Empire would have meant dissolution of the world. . . . We have avoided that...