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...issue of Lilliput, the English magazine for moppets, appeared last week an introduction penned by War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha for a story written by his late mother. In this she described how Leslie, when a lad, fell into the ocean and sank a considerable distance, whereupon "a most lovely apparition with streaming hair glided toward him. She had eyes of the deepest blue. Her skin reminded him of a luscious peach. Most wondrous of all was her body. It tapered off into a slender curve, which sparkled and reflected every color...
Unequivocably last week the Rt. Hon. Leslie Hore-Belisha stated in his introduction to his mother's story: "Some people will find it pretty, others may think it silly, but I know that it describes something that really happened, and that the characters in it did have the adventures described...
Strenuous efforts were made by foes of the Government last week to suggest with screaming headlines that the Cabinet was "splitting." On the theory that the oppression of Jews in German-Austria must have deeply moved Britain's Jewish War Secretary, Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha, dispatches left London and made world-wide news to the effect that Mr. Hore-Belisha had "threatened to resign" from the Cabinet, taking with him Malcolm MacDonald (Dominions), W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore (Colonies), W. S. Morrison (Agriculture) and Walter E. Elliott (Scotland...
...made of the fact that also in the south of France last week were Lord Baldwin, his original protégé, Mr. Eden, and his pet aversion, Winston Churchill. It was suggested in the Leftist press that this galaxy of big British names might suddenly join with "the Hore-Belisha Young Turks" and it was said that Hore-Belisha had given Neville Chamberlain a "48-hour ultimatum." The 48 hours expired, and nothing happened. For a member of the Cabinet to hand the P.M. an ultimatum is something which in London simply isn't done-but nervous Britons...
...Protestants of Northern Ireland, this authority seems not only insufficient but provocative. They were boiling mad last week, and Viscount Craigavon, their Premier, was playing host in Belfast to new United Kingdom's Secretary of State for War Leslie Hore-Belisha. If there should be fighting as a result of the new Constitution, Secretary Hore-Belisha will have well surveyed the Irish ground...