Europe's Leaders, September 1939, Sep. 11, 1939

Belgium

King: Leopold III

Prime Minister: Hubert Pierlot

Army Commander: Lt. General E. M. Van den Bergen

British Commonwealth

King Emperor: George VI

Prime Minister: Neville Chamberlain

Lord President of Council: Earl Stanhope

Chancellor of Exchequer: Sir John Simon

Lord Privy Seal: Sir Samuel Hoare

Foreign Affairs: Viscount Halifax

Dominions: Anthony Eden

Information: Lord Macmillan

Social Welfare: Ronald Cross

Colonies: Malcolm MacDonald

Air Secretary: Sir Kingsley Wood

War Secretary: Leslie Hore-Belisha

First Lord of the Admiralty: Winston Churchill (see p. 27)

Minister of Labor: Ernest Brown

Minister for the Co-ordination of Defense: Admiral Lord Chatfield

Commander-in-Chief of the Field Forces: General...

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