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...Sunday Times's color supplement. This flashy bit of New World journalism had drawn only derogatory cracks and a small hello when Thomson introduced it last year to an England used to tight little Sunday papers. "Roy Thomson has taught us something new in journalism," sneered Beaverbrook: "How we may have color without advertisements or alternately advertisements with color." The first issues were an arty mishmash, and the color supplement staggered along almost exclusively on Roy Thomson's money...
Sprawling Empire. Fleet Street's second Canadian invasion is not so drastic as Lord Beaverbrook's arrival from Mont real 52 years ago. But Thomson's takeover is even more impressive. His empire now sprawls across three continents and at least half a dozen countries. Besides his newspapers, it includes radio and TV stations, book publishing houses, and so many magazines and trade journals that Thomson himself has lost track and can only guess at the total. His best guess is "over 80." The week he left for Moscow, Thomson rounded his newspaper collection...
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...