Word: hore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Leslie Hore-Belisha, 42, ousted British War Secretary; and French Actress Jacqueline Delubac, 30, divorced wife of famed Actor Sacha Guitry...
Great Britain. In a terse two-minute speech in the House of Commons, Neville Chamberlain dryly repeated that somehow, some way Britain would have sent men had Finland asked for them. Up jumped Leslie Hore-Belisha. The Finns, he said, had repeatedly asked for both materials and men. It was shameful "to plead as an excuse a pure technicality." Prime Minister Chamberlain politely corrected his former War Secretary. Materials they had asked...
...Hore-Belisha was not satisfied. Had the Allies qualified their offer in such a way as to make the Finns think the assistance would be too feeble? This the Prime Minister declined to answer...
...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...
Nevertheless when war broke out, and especially when Poland fell and the conflict became a one-front affair, Allied practice followed Liddell Hart theory closely. The dropping of War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, a faithful disciple of Captain Liddell Hart, was supposed to presage an Allied swing to the offensive. But up until last week the Allied High Command had shown no signs of turning away from Liddell Hart orthodoxy. And last week, in a North American Newspaper Alliance dispatch, the Captain himself showed that nothing in the war's first half-year had changed his mind. His thoughts...