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...whirlwind of activity since he became Secretary of State for War three years ago cherub-faced and cheerfully ambitious Leslie Hore-Belisha has given the British Army a rousing New Deal. He raised Tommy Atkins' pay, smartened his uniform, gave him free haircuts, better food. More important, Mr. Hore-Belisha braced up the common soldier's morale by shattering a tradition of centuries that British officers were not promoted from the ranks but trained in expensive academies whose cost barred them to the poor. Promotion is now from the ranks; the mistress of a Tommy on active service...
...soldier with a flaming torch escorted Mr. Hore-Belisha home through the London blackout. "I may be back!" he told a War Office messenger, and to reporters who rushed to his small suburban estate at Wimbledon Common he mysteriously confided, "This is very big, much bigger than you imagine-it had to come." Over the weekend Bachelor Hore-Belisha refused to answer his ceaselessly jangling phone, slit open with satisfaction scores of telegrams and cables of sympathy and indignation, many from U. S. citizens. Good or bad, the reasons for the dramatic ouster of War Secretary Hore-Belisha, which caught...
...Insufferable!" Within the Cabinet there has been constant friction between Mr. Hore-Belisha and other ministers, who have found his cocksureness offensive, his aggressiveness "pushy." Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood has been especially vexed at War Secretary Hore-Belisha's bland assumption that R. A. F. units in France ought to be subordinated to the Army as soon as possible. In fact, what Leslie Hore-Belisha has been after is the creation of a Defense Ministry-with the Army, Navy and Air Force all subordinate to one able go-getter. This might be a good idea. But coming from...
Trafalgar Day (Oct. 21), 134th anniversary of Lord Nelson's smashing of Napoleon's Navy, brought out 215,231 boys between 20 and 22 to register for military service in England, Scotland and Wales.* Only 4,556 declared themselves "conchies" (conscientious objectors). War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha radiorated: "This is not a war about a map. It is a fight to reestablish the conditions under which nations and individuals including, may I say, the German nation and individuals-can live and live again...
...agreed finally that they would go this week. To each U. S. correspondent Hore-Belisha was introduced separately by amiable Novelist Ian Hay, public relations counsel for the War Office, to each he said a few pleasant words. Then on to the Air Ministry the newsmen trooped, took tea and whiskey with Sir Kingsley Wood while pretty girl-members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force offered cakes and sherry...