Talk:Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha

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[edit] 1950 candidacy in Croydon

"He fought unsuccessfully in Croydon South in 1950"

I don't think this is right. For the 1950 and 1951 elections there was no Croydon South seat and Hore-Belisha does not feature in the election records for any Croydon seat or indeed for Surrey East at that time. The Conservatives won all four seats anyway, so he would not have lost. Perhaps this refers to an internal selection, rather than the election itself. Mtiedemann 12:13, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The DNB claims it was Coventry South but I haven't got any results to hand to check if he was a candidate or not. Timrollpickering 14:16, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Sacking

This article strikes me as rather POV and there's quite some controversy about the circumstances of his downfall. I don't think the blame for his downfall lies with the King and anti-semitism, rather than with Hore-Belisha's very poor relations with the Chief of the General Staff (they mutually lost confidence in each other) and abrasive personality (meetings of the War Cabinet were often tense) which made him enemies. The impetus to make changes originated with Downing Street not the Palace - had the Palace really been against him over the abdication he would never have been considered for Minister of Information and, when it was argued that appointing a Jew to that post would make it hard to fight an anti-semitic regime, the President of the Board of Trade.

At the time the country anmd many MPs were left confused - many saw Hore-Belisha as a radical popularising army reformer in the mould of Haldane and saw him as the victim of the Colonel Blimps but they were left further confused by his resignation statement.

Does anyone have much of the case to the contrary as I don't want to start rewriting the article and risk a revert war on a disputed matter. Timrollpickering 12:39, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] "Belisha"

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