Word: hore-belisha
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...Foreign Office and asked what he knew about the peace negotiations. London was naturally anxious. If peace were concluded, Germany's northern flank would be secure, the southern made more secure. The important Scandinavian neutrals-"Norway points like a pistol at the heart of England," wrote Leslie Hore-Belisha recently -would fall deep into Russo-German influence...
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has had bad luck with Cabinet Ministers whose Christian names are Leslie. Early this year War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha became such a bumptious headache that Mr. Chamberlain dismissed him. By last week Minister of Supply Leslie Burgin had caused so much trouble for the Government that London's censor-controlled newspapers suggested that the Prime Minister had better get rid of this Leslie...
...inside" story of the Hore-Belisha dismissal was still last week a well-guarded secret. The cause of the storm over Minister Burgin was crystal clear. Ever since the Prime Minister appointed Mr. Burgin Supply Minister last April Laborite M. P.s have been gunning for him. They were willing to admit that during World War I Leslie Burgin was a fine Army intelligence officer who richly deserved his special citations. Since he collects languages as Franklin Roosevelt collects stamps, and speaks every European tongue and several Asiatic ones, Captain Burgin could interview war prisoners the Allies brought...
...Laborites had also watched Mr. Burgin as the uninspired successor of dramatic Leslie Hore-Belisha in the Ministry of Transport and had suspected that he did not have enough pep to keep things humming in the newly created Ministry of Supply. Largely because of these suspicions they demanded-and got-a secret session of Parliament in December. Then late in January Laborite M. P. Ernest . Thurtle rose publicly in the House and used some very interesting language. He had found the Supply Ministry peppered with favoritism, if not graft. Scotland Yard got busy, the War Office began investigating...
...Germans. Perhaps-though this was not yet demonstrable-they were the advance guard for Allied supplies or even an Allied expeditionary force for beleaguered Finland. The Papal daily Osservatore Romano in Vatican City credited this view, at least so far as supplies went. In England, erstwhile War Minister Leslie Hore-Belisha added color to the world's conjectures with a fighting (and uncensored) speech calling for instant Allied aid to Finland by land, air and sea. Admiral Nikolai Kuznetsov, handsome young top commissar of the Red Navy, was reported speeding to Murmansk, main base for Russia's northern...