Word: beaverbrook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diehard Blimps, as usual, died hard. Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express (circ. 4,042,334), whose zealous devotion to imperialism has outlived the empire, usually flaunts its dislike of Sir Anthony Eden. But last week it hailed his action: "Let there be no doubt that it is a prudent step, a necessary step and one that deserves unqualified support from the nation." The chest-beating tabloid Daily Sketch (circ. 1,123,855) shrilled: "Stop the sniveling and close the ranks." But misgivings ran like chills through responsible Tory papers that staunchly upheld the government when the Suez crisis broke...
...world. If we neglect to minister to its birth, it may outgrow us and have little need of Britain." A group of 82 Labor M.P.s and another of 89 Tories, more than 25% of the House of Commons, got behind similar resolutions. The press, save only Lord Beaverbrook's empire-minded Daily Express, chorused fervent approval...
...London Daily Express, advocating colored colonial Members of Parliament, Press Lord Beaverbrook took Ellington as a fine example of his race, described him as "a genius of Negro music. He sat by the side of his host, modest, dignified, delighting all the company with his gay mind and splendid bearing...
...Beaverbrook's Express. He had learned from a Canadian Cabinet Minister, said Sir Beverley, that "the policy of the big oil interests of the U.S. is to achieve a monopolistic control of the natural oil in the English-speaking world...
...week's end, however, as more and more of the facts came out, Lord Beaverbrook was left to cry shame alone. The rival Daily Mail, which had originally urged the government to "turn it down," after thinking it over a few days, concluded: "On the face of it there is much to be said for the Trinidad oil deal...