Pillbox affair

The Pillbox affair, also known as the Pillbox incident, was a military and political episode which occurred in Britain between November 1939 and January 1940 during the Second World War which resulted in the January 1940 dismissal of Leslie Hore-Belisha from the post of British War Minister.

Hore-Belisha and the commander of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), General, later Field Marshal, John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, did not get along well together.

On his return to Britain, he complained to the War Cabinet and the Army Council that too few pillbox defences were being built for the BEF.

[2] This campaign succeeded in large part due to antisemitism and class prejudice in both the Army and Parliament.

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