Word: beaverbrook
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...years. As the man who had led his nation to victory in World War 1 and founded the welfare state, he enjoyed greater popular support than any other British politician in more than a century. Politically, he seemed a titan, ruling over squabbling pygmies. Yet the fact was, as Beaverbrook tells the story. "Lloyd George was a Prime Minister without a party." His own Liberal Party was split into warring factions. Severe unemployment at home and violent disagreements over foreign policy had frayed the Liberals' uneasy coalition with the Conservatives. "The Big Beast of the Forest," as his ministers...
...DECLINE & FALL OF LLOYD GEORGE (320 pp.)-Lord Beaverbrook-Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
There are few historians who can say: "I was there." One who can-and frequently does-is Max Beaverbrook, the Canadian-born press lord and sometime Cabinet Minister who has been passionately involved in the "Great Game" of British politics for half a century. In the third of his authoritative, astringent histories of the World War 1 era and its aftermath (the others: Politicians and the War, Men and Power), Lord Beaverbrook is himself a central figure in the narrative. Beaverbrook was a member of Lloyd George's wartime cabinet (as minister of information) but it was largely through...
...Beaverbrook knew precisely what he wanted. Both as publisher and politician, his career has been devoted to a single, quixotic goal, the creation of an Empire-wide economic union; he admits cheerfully that he bought the then bankrupt Daily Express for this "sole and only purpose." He realized that he would never convert Lloyd George to the cause of Empire free trade. So, working behind the scenes like a Machiavellian elf, Beaverbrook applied his charm, wealth and printing presses to the destruction of his old colleague...
...English beauty was married to Gentleman Golfer Charles Sweeny, for whom, the gossip columnists insisted, she had jilted the young Earl of Warwick. That same year Ian Campbell made headlines by taking as his second wife Louise Vanneck. daughter of U.S. Sculptor Henry Clews. (His first: Janet Aitken. Lord Beaverbrook's daughter.) Though unmentioned in the song, Campbell was even more Top than Mrs. Sweeny. In 1949 he became Duke of Argyll (family motto: "Forget Not"), Chief of Clan Campbell, Hereditary Master of the King's Household in Scotland, Admiral of the Western Coasts and Isles. Hereditary Sheriff...