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Great Britain. In a terse two-minute speech in the House of Commons, Neville Chamberlain dryly repeated that somehow, some way Britain would have sent men had Finland asked for them. Up jumped Leslie Hore-Belisha. The Finns, he said, had repeatedly asked for both materials and men. It was shameful "to plead as an excuse a pure technicality." Prime Minister Chamberlain politely corrected his former War Secretary. Materials they had asked...
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has had bad luck with Cabinet Ministers whose Christian names are Leslie. Early this year War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha became such a bumptious headache that Mr. Chamberlain dismissed him. By last week Minister of Supply Leslie Burgin had caused so much trouble for the Government that London's censor-controlled newspapers suggested that the Prime Minister had better get rid of this Leslie...
...inside" story of the Hore-Belisha dismissal was still last week a well-guarded secret. The cause of the storm over Minister Burgin was crystal clear. Ever since the Prime Minister appointed Mr. Burgin Supply Minister last April Laborite M. P.s have been gunning for him. They were willing to admit that during World War I Leslie Burgin was a fine Army intelligence officer who richly deserved his special citations. Since he collects languages as Franklin Roosevelt collects stamps, and speaks every European tongue and several Asiatic ones, Captain Burgin could interview war prisoners the Allies brought...
...Laborites had also watched Mr. Burgin as the uninspired successor of dramatic Leslie Hore-Belisha in the Ministry of Transport and had suspected that he did not have enough pep to keep things humming in the newly created Ministry of Supply. Largely because of these suspicions they demanded-and got-a secret session of Parliament in December. Then late in January Laborite M. P. Ernest . Thurtle rose publicly in the House and used some very interesting language. He had found the Supply Ministry peppered with favoritism, if not graft. Scotland Yard got busy, the War Office began investigating...
Nevertheless when war broke out, and especially when Poland fell and the conflict became a one-front affair, Allied practice followed Liddell Hart theory closely. The dropping of War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, a faithful disciple of Captain Liddell Hart, was supposed to presage an Allied swing to the offensive. But up until last week the Allied High Command had shown no signs of turning away from Liddell Hart orthodoxy. And last week, in a North American Newspaper Alliance dispatch, the Captain himself showed that nothing in the war's first half-year had changed his mind. His thoughts...