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...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...
Britain. In the House of Commons, War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, during a debate on Britain's new mobilization procedure, announced new preparedness measures: British Army, Navy and Air Force reserves are to be called for one to six months' service for special training and to bring His Majesty's armed forces up to war strength, ready "if necessary to take the field at short notice." Said dramatic Mr. Hore-Belisha: "It is a time when the nation must sleep on its haversacks...
...that just such guns were in order has been one of Mr. Hore-Belisha's special responsibilities for the past year. Furthermore, had a Hyde Park soap-boxer, any British newspaper publisher or even any member of Parliament revealed such a horrendous condition, he would have been clapped in jail under the Official Secrets Act. What happened to Mr. Hore-Belisha was nothing. His Government immediately got the second vote of confidence in two days (355-to-130), and the War Secretary prepared to send a "simple memorandum" of instructions to section commanders about how to behave in future...