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...Lord Beaverbrook's son, R.A.F. Wing Commander Max Aitken, has said he believes the 177 has a 2,000-mile range with 1½-ton load. If so, it could probably fly the Atlantic with a half-ton load for token raids...
Britain's gabbiest second fronter-the fierce-tongued Lord Beaverbrook-could never go to bed until his R.A.F. elder son had phoned him: "All's well-goodnight!" For Wing Commander Max Aitken, 32, is the apple of the Beaver's eye. Some said it was the Beaver who got Max grounded in the Air Ministry last year. But it was only temporarily. Flying a Beaufighter, Son Max landed last week with a cocky message for the Beaver: he had bagged two Nazi bombers over Britain, bringing his total to twelve...
...D.F.C., is one of Britain's aces. In London, at week's end Czecho-Slovak President Eduard Benes announced that young Max would get another decoration: the Czech War Cross. That made two things Benes and the Beaver shared in common-a high regard for Wing Commander Aitken and mounting impatience for a second front...
Four German raiders northeast of England, by an R.A.F. squadron led by Lord Beaverbrook's son, Wing-Commander Max Aitken...
Five weeks ago, the Beaver jumped or fell from the Churchill Cabinet. The brash baron who was born plain Max Aitken of Canada explained vociferously: "I am simply a sick man needing a rest." He has had bouts of asthma and temperament, inextricably mixed, for years. Between bouts (and during them) he helped convert British industry to wartime production, whooped up aircraft building, slashed British red tape, shocked and angered many an Old School Tie; he stepped up beside Churchill, as Minister of Production, did a whale of a job in upping British war production...