Word: beaverbrook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since Britain appeared to be shut out of the Common Market, at least for now, its businessmen were already engaged in looking where else to turn. For some, among whom the noisiest was Lord Beaverbrook, the best alternative was to whip the Commonwealth into a kind of super common market. Composed of 16 nations that are threaded together by a complicated system of preferential tariff agreements, the Commonwealth has a population of 715 million, accounts for 23% of the world's trade. The Commonwealth, India's Nehru once mused, is "a rather strange and odd collection of nations...
...BEAVERBROOK LONDON...
...COMECON meeting in Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev let loose another tirade against the Market, while in Britain, in full-page advertisements paid for by Tory Imperialist Lord Beaverbrook, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein blared: "I say we must not join Europe.'' Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah denounced Britain's plans to enter the Market and found himself in tune with Australia's Prime Minister Robert Menzies, usually no friend of the Commonwealth's black members...
...were all there, chatting with Sir Winston Churchill and Prime Minister Macmillan at a table in London's imposing Warwick House-Roy Thomson of the Sunday Times, Cecil Harmsworth King of the Daily Mirror, Lord Rothermere of the Daily Mail, and the guest of honor, crusty, combative Lord Beaverbrook of the Daily Express, whose 83rd birthday prompted the shindig. "I felt that this was an occasion on which Fleet Street could forget its animosities," said Rothermere, who arranged the affair. "But I assure you, they'll be resumed tomorrow." Said the Beaver: "I have destroyed completely the foolish...
Royalty is supposed to ignore such outbursts-but standing on dignity has grown increasingly uncomfortable for Prince Philip, who does not like newsmen anyway (he once kicked one), and has become highly sensitive to the Beaverbrook press's constant highlighting of the expenses of his trips. Last week the prince blew up. At a press reception in Rio de Janeiro in the midst of a Latin American tour, he collared a reporter from the Daily Express. Said the prince: "The Daily Express is a bloody awful newspaper. It is full of lies, scandal and imagination. It is a vicious...