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...speech, however, brought some of that clamor into Parliament. It was made by onetime War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, long-standing political feudist with the Prime Minister. Said...
...spot. He casually pulled a bundle of clippings from his pocket and began reading from articles that Morrison himself had written for the Mirror before he became a member of the Government. One said that "the people want less muddled advice from the top"; another, that War Minister Hore-Belisha had been ousted by the brass hats because he wanted to democratize the army...
...Liberal National Party, which since 1931 has supported the Conservatives, resigned. Two of them announced that they would function as "independent" members of the House of Commons, while advocating a new Government of National Union with strong Empire representation. The third, moonfaced, ambitious, onetime War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha (whom Churchill thoroughly detests and whom his son Randolph once described as "Britain's No. 1 Racketeer Politician"), stated that he would continue to support the Government. But many Britons guessed that he considered the eventual fall of Churchill a good gamble...
...grave pat on the back for the deposed man, three cheers and a tiger for the new one. But last week's shift, involving the greatest British military hero of the war, could not be tossed off lightly. Winston Churchill got into a dreadful row with Leslie Hore-Belisha for failing to explain the exchange. Observers were left to discover their own explanations for the shift. It was not difficult...
...chief critical voice, as in the debate after the loss of Greece and Libya, was that of onetime Secretary for War Leslie Hore-Belisha. But for the most part he had only such dubious suggestions to make as that 100 more fighting planes would have turned the tide in Greece, and only such vague conclusions to draw as: "It is evident that in strategy there has been on our side no adjustment to the tempo or to the resources of the enemy. . . . I deem it my duty to warn the country that it is only by handling our problems with...