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...Prime Minister defended Viscount Halifax for censoring 44 lines out of a Britain-must-aid-Finland newspaper article by ousted War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha. This was done, explained Mr. Chamberlain, lest any reader think that Mr. Hore-Belisha was writing with "special authority." Two days later in Devonport the ousted Secretary, speaking as an ordinary M.P. to his constituents, spouted what were thought to be his censored lines, virtually called for Allied war on Russia to save Finland...
Nancy Langhorne Viscountess Astor is no prude but when onetime War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha (see p. 27) recently introduced the practice of paying allowances to soldiers' mistresses, she objected violently. Her objection was overruled. Last week she rounded up a delegation to raise the matter again-before new War Secretary Oliver Stanley. Lady Astor objected that the practice was both bad morals and bad business. "I know a case," she said, "in which a woman is receiving dependent allowances from three men and is now living with a fourth...
Minister Cross's speech hit the House of Commons as it lolled in what one Parliamentarian called "the genial vacuum of emotion" left behind War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha's sudden resignation. Out of the speech leaped one lightning sentence which made the vacuum crumple in a thunder of applause: "At the end of four-and-one-half months, Germany is in something like the same economic stress that she was in after two years of the last...
...early breakfast one morning last week, hustled over to reach Westminster at 8 a.m. wearing an expectant grin. Other M. P.s, equally eager to squeeze into their House, which is much too small to seat all of them, were already jampacked around the door. They half-hoped that Leslie Hore-Belisha, recently ousted British War Secretary (TIME, Jan. 15), would clash with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in the first really hot House of Commons debate since outbreak...
Actually there had been a usual and very British adjustment of the whole affair behind the scenes, but London editors, whom Mr. Hore-Belisha had made his best press agents, had given the affair a fine buildup. Cartoonists had a field day (see cut). On this occasion Mr. Hore-Belisha may have regretted the warm friendship, for he saw that much the best thing for his political future is to retire quietly with a stiff British upper...