Word: hore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emerged with the conclusion that the generals on both sides had bungled fantastically: wasted millions of lives, exhausted their national patrimonies, achieved virtually nothing except to end the war by exhaustion. Other military men raised their eye brows at some of his military teachings, but when Leslie Hore-Belisha became Secretary of State for War in 1937, he began to listen to Captain Liddell Hart's advice, began to mechanize the British Army, improve anti-aircraft defense (Britain had fewer anti-aircraft guns than in 1918 when air attack was much less developed), reduce the age and stuffiness...
...British War Secretary, Leslie Hore-Belisha, made a quick trip to Paris. Two days later the French members of the Supreme War Council, Premier Edouard Daladier and Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin, accompanied by several aides, flew secretly to England and met "somewhere in Sussex," in a quiet town hall, with their British colleagues. Munitions and food supply were said to have been the chief agenda. French mobilization was announced as having been finally completed (after 17 days of war), with 3,500,000 men under arms in a zone 15 to 30 miles deep behind the Maginot Line. Artillery pounding...
...Secretary: Leslie Hore-Belisha...
When Edouard Daladier learned (through the press) that Russia would give Hitler a free hand in Poland, he indulged in no public breast-beating or recriminations. Action was his answer. After conferring in his capacity as Minister of National Defense with British War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, he summoned Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet from vacation in the country, closeted himself once more with his generals. To M. Bonnet he gave the job of checking with France's allies, letting them know that this time France meant business. To his generals he gave the word to man the Maginot Line...
...first page gives a jolly introduction by Secretary for War Leslie Hore-Belisha...