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Shortly after Dunkirk, as a bright Beaverboy of 27, Mike Foot helped write Guilty Men, an indictment of the Chamberlain government (TIME, Sept. 30, 1940). The Beaver pretended not to notice. But when Foot gave the Tories the other barrel in The Trial of Mussolini, Beaverbrook dropped him as editor. Since mid-1944, Foot has done his sharpshooting from his column in the Laborite Daily Herald. ("The central problem of Toryism remains the same: how to get the poor to vote for the rich man's cause...
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