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...proposal for a Western Bloc, which many Britons want but do not want to talk about, bounced up onto the floor of the House of Commons last week. It was tossed there by candid, portly Leslie Hore-Belisha, former Secretary of State for War, who urged the House to consider "an offer by Belgium to give us some kind of strategic outposts and economic outposts as well, similar to those we give the United States in the West Indies...
Married. Leslie Hore-Belisha, 45, onetime British War Secretary (1937-40) and Cynthia Elliott, 29, repatriated British war nurse; at Norbiton, Surrey. Long a confirmed bachelor, he once vowed that he would never marry because no woman could cook like his mother...
Born. To Henry Browne Wallace, 28, elder son of Vice President Henry Agard Wallace, and Florence Kling Wallace, 25: their first child, the Vice President's first grandchild, a daughter, Joan Brooks; in Des Moines. Weight: 7 lbs. 10½ oz. Engaged. Leslie Hore-Belisha, 45, onetime (1937-'40) British War Secretary, since then an outspoken House of Commons critic of Winston Churchill; and Cynthia Elliott, British war nurse captured in France by the Nazis in 1940, repatriated last year from a prison camp. Married. Elizabeth Cannell Bradley, 20, only daughter of Lieut. General Omar Bradley, commander...
Foot was out as editor of the Standard. He had been disclosed as "Cassius," author of last month's Tory-scorching bestseller, The Trial of Mussolini, in which the defense summons Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Sir Samuel Hoare, Viscount Simon and many another resounding name as character witnesses for the Duce. In 1940 Foot and two other Standard men, using the name of "Cato," wrote Guilty Men, an indictment of prewar appeasers, blunderers and incompetents, including several attacked again by Cassius. That time, Beaverbrook had carefully looked the other...
...Government and fight for your socialist convictions-if you still have them. If you've lost them, get out"); 2) to rub out the shame of Munich ("Anybody who was associated with the Chamberlain Government should be hounded out of public life"); 3) to capture Leslie Hore-Belisha's seat in the House of Commons ("About a year ago Hore-Belisha went into a monastery and came out saying he wanted to go back again. I hope to assist...