FORMER SECRETARY FOR WAR
WHY DID HE RESIGN? One of the causes of the resignation of Mr Hore-Belisha fi'om the Cabinet post of Secretary for War, in the early months of the pi'esent struggle, is the subject of comment by Professor Walter Murdoch, writing in the Melbourne “Hei'ald.” “It is an open secret now that Mr Hoi'e-Belisha quax-relled with the French (and British) leaders about the state of the French defences along the Belgian frontier.” the Professor writes “The Secretary for War—backed as we now know, by certain repi'esentatives from the Dominions—strongly urged that work on these defences should be speeded up; his criticisms were so bitterly resented that he had to leave the War Office. What other reasons there may have been for his dismissal we can only guess: but, on this point, his insight was all too quickly justified by ti'agic events.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 25 October 1940, Page 2
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