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Correspondents who last week made a tour of the Midlands factory district, where most British airplanes and parts are made, reported no appreciable damage. One correspondent poked his nose into the garden of William Maxwell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook, who is Minister of Aircraft Production, and found everything quiet there. Not long before, Lord Beaverbrook had said: "If you want to see what damage Hitler's done, take a look into Beaverbrook's garden. When you see a little man tearing up and down, raging and shaking his fist at the sky, you'll know Hitler...
...overwhelming majority in the House of Commons. But since the illness of Conservative Leader Neville Chamberlain, another man has gradually usurped the actual leadership of the Party. He stays in the background and lets others drive, but he picks and orders the routes. That man is William Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook. Says he: "Nobody would have believed it. It's as likely they'd have predicted I'd be Archbishop of Canterbury...
...displaying "great dash and gallantry" and bagging eight enemy planes, R. A. F. Squadron Leader the Hon. Maxwell ("Max") Aitken, 30, son & heir of Napoleonic little British Publisher Lord Beaverbrook, now Minister for Aircraft Production, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross...
...Canadian village bumpkin who all his life has outsmarted city slickers, William Maxwell Aitken "The Beaver" skyrocketed from selling sewing machines, cement and insurance, in which he had little faith (even today self-reliant Beaverbrook carries no life or personal property insurance), until at 31 he dominated a Canadian cement company and liquidated his dominion holdings for $5,000,000 in order to go to the mother country and have...
...Since the death of Rudyard Kipling, the British Empire has found no louder rooter than little Max Aitken, the pulse-taking Express's Canadian-born publisher. The onetime bottle-washer came out with a long personal editorial upholding among other things the aristocratic principle ("an aristocracy of political heritage under the influence of a democratic vote"). But even Publisher Max had "no interest in rescuing Poland and Czecho-Slovakia from the gutter," was for the war only because the Empire...