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...Hore-Belisha became War Secretary. He made Gort his military secretary, later lifted him over the heads of 50 others to the office of Chief of the Imperial General Staff. He was a part of Hore-Belisha's "rejuvenation" of the army. A big man with a square face, whose hats generally looked too small for him, he was known to his men as the "Fat Boy." Actually muscular and fit as a fiddle, he expected his subordinates to keep the same way, would often give an aide a strenuous tour of duty just to get the flesh...
Liberal M.P. Leslie Hore-Belisha, returning last week to London after Parliament's August recess, felt a new and better man. He was, said he, refreshed in body, spirit and mind. Also, to his satisfaction, he had confirmed two of his favorite contentions...
...days Leslie Hore-Belisha, who used to take his holidays on the Riviera, immersed himself in the Cistercian routine. He rose at 2 a.m. for the night offices in the Abbey's austere white chapel. He assisted at Matins, Lauds, Prime Terce, High Mass, Nones, Vespers, Complin. Among white-habited monks he worked on the farm, helping to cut and shock corn. He watched the monks weave cloth, bake bread, bind manuscripts, work at sculpture and wood carving. He shared their single daily vegetarian meal...
...Atlantic Charter with H. G. Wells-or eating fish pie in the Archbishop of Canterbury's sombre palace. You might find her talking with Labor Minister Ernest Bevin at the Trade Union Club-playing tennis with Ronald Tree of the Information Ministry-dining at the Savoy with Hore-Belisha. . . . She is probably the only woman who ever appeared at a formal Cliveden dinner in a tricked-up red bathrobe. (She had left all her clothes in Paris when the Nazis came.) But the next week she was dancing a cockney tango with some of England's "little people...
...Save the King. Ten munitions workers, claiming to represent 4,000 others, presented a second-front petition to No. 10 Downing Street. Ex-President Eduard Benes of ex-Czecho-Slovakia urged an immediate second front in the hope of obtaining peace "within a year." Ex-War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha demanded either a second front or continuous British bombing raids. But the most powerful new voice added to the clamor was that of tough Jack Tanner, president of the 600,000-member Amalgamated Engineering Union. Said...