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Though the Army reforms are accepted by the officer caste, Hore-Belisha's infringements on their sacred privileges are probably deeply resented nevertheless. Before the World War, Josephus Daniels, our Secretary of the Navy then, "vigorously democratized" the naval service. Because of this he was never popular with the Annapolis crowd, who considered him a small-time busy demagogue-and political crank. A man promoted from the ranks was stigmatized as a "mustang." Whenever naval officers gathered in a French cafe during the War, a popular song...
Nancy Langhorne Viscountess Astor is no prude but when onetime War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha (see p. 27) recently introduced the practice of paying allowances to soldiers' mistresses, she objected violently. Her objection was overruled. Last week she rounded up a delegation to raise the matter again-before new War Secretary Oliver Stanley. Lady Astor objected that the practice was both bad morals and bad business. "I know a case," she said, "in which a woman is receiving dependent allowances from three men and is now living with a fourth...
Minister Cross's speech hit the House of Commons as it lolled in what one Parliamentarian called "the genial vacuum of emotion" left behind War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha's sudden resignation. Out of the speech leaped one lightning sentence which made the vacuum crumple in a thunder of applause: "At the end of four-and-one-half months, Germany is in something like the same economic stress that she was in after two years of the last...
...early breakfast one morning last week, hustled over to reach Westminster at 8 a.m. wearing an expectant grin. Other M. P.s, equally eager to squeeze into their House, which is much too small to seat all of them, were already jampacked around the door. They half-hoped that Leslie Hore-Belisha, recently ousted British War Secretary (TIME, Jan. 15), would clash with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in the first really hot House of Commons debate since outbreak...
...make Germany's warbirds stay home, Britain also sent night patrols far into Germany last week, over Austria, Bohemia and northeast Germany, dropping pamphlets. This was the second major operation after a shake-up in the Royal Air Force in France. Until the resignation of War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, Britain's Air Force in France was divided into: 1) Army Cooperation units under Vice Marshal C. H. B. Blount, who took orders from the Army's General the Viscount Gort; 2) Advanced Striking Force under Vice Marshal Patrick Playfair, who was responsible...