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MAN OF THE LIMELIGHT

By A Political Correspondent

The strange and romantic story of Mr. Hore-Belisha has a Disraeli quali- ty.

Both shared an open ambition for power; both were Jews; both had flamboyance as their most apparent characteristic. .

And both had a noble ambition to do well in the service of the State, and were prepared to suffer-and did suf- fer many reverses in the attainment of that ambition.

Mr. Hore-Belisha is probably the most oustanding example in our time of a man who succeeded in obtaining preferment in the Ministry without the background of ancestry; because he believed in himself.

tunity of knowing the right people, who was an ardent follower of Mr. Lloyd George, dressed with particular care, spoke with precision, avowedly made Disraeli his hero, and was pre- pared to challenge the methods and manners of all statesmon of the pre- war regime.

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His first reward came in 1931, when Was appointed Parliamentary he Secretary to the Board of Trade, an office in which statistical knowledge enabled him, for the first ilme, to adorn the Front Bench of the House of Commons, with prescient petence, in replying to inquiries.

It may be said of him very truly at I remember him first when he came

this time, as at all times during his to the House of Commons just after career, that no personal relaxations, no the war. He had served with distinc-pleasures of the body or mind. were tion in that fight, been mentioned in despatches for valour, and had the ad- ditional cachet of having been in 1919 president of the Oxford Union.

There he wooed the arts of oratory (and, indeed, of publicity), which stood him in good stead when, as a young Liberal, he appealed to the Devonport division in 1923 to elect him as a Liberal.

COACH-AND-FOUR

There was a story, not denied, that Mr. Hore-Belisha won a great deal of money against the bank at a French casino, and dedicated this un- expected fortune to the furtherance of an ambition he had always had to obtain eminence in political life.

He is, of course, a rich man in his own right now.

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able to divert him from the attainment. of the destiny and high office to which, following again the example of Dis- raeli, he dedicated the whole of his forces.

In 1932 he attained the office of Financial Secretary to the Treasury, a Cabinet itself. stepping-stone to the He seemed to be on the verge of al- most unlimited advancement.

But

soon there did undoubtedly In 1934 come a break in his career. politicians were inclined to wag their heads 'when he left the Treasury for an appointment as Minister of Trans- port. They said; "Ah, we knew that Hore-Belisha was getting on too fast. This is a step back. There must be something in it."

TOOK HIS CHANCES

His election at Devonport was a Well, there wasn't, Whatever Hore- fair example of his spectacular Belisha himself thought, he kept it to methods. He engaged a coach-and-himself, and proceeded, as he has al- four and drove it round the streets of ways done, to make the most of the his constituency day by day. Wher- opportunities which were offered to

ever a crowd could be gathered he him.

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would blow a fanfare on the post- He made the office of Transport horn, and having brought together by Minister the most talked of in the this means the men and women from | Government. the surrounding houses, he addressed Perhaps he was too spectacular. them from the box seat on the object There were times when the news- of his election.

papers felt rather a surfelt of Hore- Were his methods un-English or Bellsha in the campaign he waged to wrong? Well, his constituents seem make safer the roads of Britain. Bell- to have stuck to him.

sha beacons stand in his memory, and the experiments in road safety which--- he made were highly charged with publicity.

So Mr. Hore-Belisha arrived at the House of Commons with the success of a spectacular election upon him, determined as never a man was be- In office he advanced in assurance fore to secure high office by the joint and aplomb. The young, eager Liberal aids of advertisement and ability. self-seeker from the Oxford Union He was then still a very young became an accomplished and urbane

politicians go, ebullient, politician, who S pushful, not obliged to slave for his bread and butter.

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His age he has always concealed from "Who's Who," for no reason that one may discover, but he was, in fact, born on September 7, 1893, at 7, Kilburn Priory, London; named Isaac Leslie Belisha, after his father, Mr. Jacob Isaac. Bellsha:

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in his was as easy manner with Tory peers as with the workmen who made the new roads which he declared open.

It was not, therefore, with great surprise that the House of Commons learned of his appointment in 1937 as Secretary of State for War, M.P.s had already decided that this was a young man-still young as politics go, for he was then in the early forties--who could not be kept down.

He adopted the additional surname of Hore after, in 1912, his mother married Sir Charles Hore, following And undoubtedly the nation, ac- the death of her first husband.

customed to a more doctrinaire-style The-House-of-Commons saw him in of War Ministers,” of men more tinc- those days of the early 1920's as a tured with tradition in Service mat- young man who carried a sheaf of theters, was slightly staggered. latest Government reports under his Here, they said, is a man who will arm, who never missed an

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