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...jobs that he performed just before the war made him the best-posted, all-around officer Britain has. The first was Commander of the Mobile Division in 1937-38. Just when he had mastered tank, antitank and armored car technique, for which he had great enthusiasm, War Secretary Hore-Belisha switched him into the Anti-Aircraft Corps Command. He found it a scratch bunch of guns without instruments, searchlights or coordination. In a year he smoothed and built it into seven highly efficient up-to-date divisions...
...face swollen and red from an encounter with a belligerent bee, former Secretary for War Leslie Hore-Belisha banged the speaker's stand in the House of Commons as he demanded "imagination and inspiring action" in settling the Irish question. "Hitler's triumph," he shouted, "can be prevented only by a united policy in Ireland. . . . [Germany's] occupation of Ireland would cover our only remaining flank and make the arrival of those supplies from America on which we are counting most hazardous...
...Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha resigns, reportedly because Cabinet would not accede to his demands for more aggressive warfare...
Married. Leslie Hore-Belisha, 42, ousted British War Secretary; and French Actress Jacqueline Delubac, 30, divorced wife of famed Actor Sacha Guitry...
...Hore-Belisha was not satisfied. Had the Allies qualified their offer in such a way as to make the Finns think the assistance would be too feeble? This the Prime Minister declined to answer...