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...letter began "My dear Clarence . . .", ended "Yours ever, Max." Between these affectionate lines Canadian-born Max Aitken, Britain's Lord Beaverbrook, broke the bad news to Canadian Munitions Minister Clarence Decatur Howe: Britain had ditched Canada's plan for postwar control of the air. Reason: the U.S. objected...
Particularly, he did not care for that dynamic bundle of energy and irritation, Lord Beaverbrook.* At this point, Churchill must have bristled. Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, is many things to the Prime Minister-a friend with a flair and dash otherwise lacking in the men around Churchill; a tough, nationalistic figure who usefully personifies Britain's instinctive, rising desire to depend first on herself and her Dominions (see p. 33) in a world where "the United Nations" are none too united. (Again the knowing Economist spieled a commentary: "Lord Beaverbrook is a believer in strong diplomacy and splendid isolation...
...game lineup: HARVARD M. I. T. Warren, l,f. r,f., Landwehr Hennessy, r.f. l.f., Haddox Manville,c. c., Aitken Rayle, l.g. r.g., Taft Eder, r.g. l.g., Watson
Lord Beaverbrook (Max Aitken) re-entered the Government as Lord Privy Seal. A benevolent old pirate with indefatigable asthma, he is contemptuous of anyone who does not admire Churchill's Britain, Stalin's Russia, the U.S. and its women, folk songs, gangster movies. "The Beaver" has led the cry for a second front in Britain, does not beg when he differs with Crony Winston-something the Prime Minister appreciates. Commented London's Daily Mirror: "Mr. Churchill has brought over to his side again the most persistent critic of the Government...
Last winter a group of Cornell students joined Mohr in a thorough exploration of the bat caves in Center and Mifflin Counties, Pennsylvania. The limestone ridges there are honeycombed with small caves, but Aitken's Cave, near Milroy, is the most accessible. All banded bats were found in the same cave as in previous years. Even bats that had been carried off and released far away were back again. Only once did Mohr find an intruder: this stray bat's own cave had been sealed by a rockfall during the summer...