Word: beaverbrook
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...bombers joined the fray, and last April, when Frederika was in London for the wedding of her third cousin Princess Alexandra, she was set upon by a crowd of demonstrators and forced to seek refuge in a private house. Britain's anti-Greek chorus was swelled by Lord Beaverbrook, who, for reasons of his own, scurrilously attacked her in his newspapers for her German background...
...Decline and Fall of Lloyd George, by Lord Beaverbrook. An intimate account of the events that in 1922 ended the career of one of the greatest of England's Prime Ministers, by a man who had a large part in his downfall...
...Beaverbrook is a born raconteur with a novelist's ear for intimate dialogue, and he peppers his chronicle with anecdotes, gibes, and Maxims that must be the despair of his gossip columnists. Of Austen Chamberlain, he writes cuttingly: "He always played the game, and always lost...
Informed that King George V wished to see him on a Saturday, Lloyd George explodes: "Damn the King! Saturday is the only day I have to play golf." When the King suggests that Monday will do as well, his Prime Minister exclaims: "God bless His Majesty." One of Beaverbrook's best disclosures is that the old radical was willing to resign as Prime Minister if he could become editor of the conservative London Times "at a decent salary and with a decent contract...
...Beaverbrook's most memorable anecdote concerns a crucial dinner party at which Chamberlain, "the most important and impressive guest," was expounding on Ireland. "Only one detail was going wrong," writes Beaverbrook. "The butler was obviously tight." Furiously, their hostess scribbled a note and handed it to the butler, who put it "on a big and beautiful salver and, walking unsteadily to Austen Chamberlain, with a deep bow presented the message." It read: "You are drunk-leave the room at once...