Word: beaverbrook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WILL 1959 BE MOUNTBATTEN'S YEAR? cried a headline in Lord Beaverbrook's London Sunday Express. Next morning Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, first Earl Mountbatten of Burma, walked into his office as First Sea Lord, waving the Sunday Express, beamed matter-of-factly: "The Beaver's attacking me again-I must be due for a promotion." Within 48 hours came the announcement: next July, when R.A.F. Marshal Sir William Dickson retires, Lord Mountbatten will become Chief of the Defense Staff, top military man over all Britain's services...
Nixon's first gain: warm applause from the Pilgrims, a stilling of press criticism down to Beaverbrook press notes about his "Hollywood-style G-men" (he had two Secret Service men with him), about the "22-ft." length of his Cadillac...
...Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express accused Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana of trying "to sneak Guinea into the Commonwealth by the back door," while the Paris press darkly hinted that perhaps the whole idea was a British plot to break up the French community in Africa. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan confessed that the whole thing came as a "complete surprise," and many Britons wondered why Nkrumah had not consulted his Commonwealth partners in advance. Nevertheless, the voice of pan-Africanism had spoken, and its echoes could be heard all through the week...
...Lord Beaverbrook's Empire-thumping Evening Standard delightedly grumped: "To many in this country, it must seem regrettable that the movement to galvanize the Commonwealth should have sprung from Ottawa rather than London." By and large Britons were pleased at their cousin's bumptiousness; the Times headlined approvingly, CANADA'S RIGHT TO SHARE THE BURDEN...
...GERMAN BLOOD, headlined Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express next morning, and Express readers took up the cry as the paper intended. Said one wire signed by three Londoners: "We are not particularly pleased to be reminded of the Queen's rather unfortunate ancestry...