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...Else?" Thomson is different from the usual Fleet Street press lord who goes after power, prestige, a peerage or who, like another transplanted Canadian, Lord Beaverbrook, wants to exhort ("I run the paper purely for the purpose of making propaganda," Press Lord Beaverbrook once said). Thomson expects to earn almost $20 million this year on his $130 million empire. This prospect delights him. "A sound financial front is the most important thing in a newspaper," he said last week. "Why else would you be in the news business? Either it's because you're mad at somebody...
...Dissenters. Amidst the cheers Hammarskjold's Congo policy has won, there were voices of dissent. In London, Lord Beaverbrook's empire-minded Daily Express complained that U.N. intervention in the Congo "is an act of brigandage and oppression cloaked by sanctimoniousness . . . Every agitator in Africa looks with hope to Dag Hammarskjold." In Paris the right-wing L'Aurore asked: "Do we understand that in the Congo the first objective is to evict the Belgians and the second to re-establish on his cardboard throne this astonishing Lumumba?'' Paris-Jour, echoing the feeling of those Western...
...reigning houses of the United Kingdom." Last week, when Her Majesty announced her "will and pleasure," the press could not shake off the unpleasant conviction that Uncle Dickie was behind it all. "A victory for Prince Philip and his uncle!" growled the Daily Herald. "A sad blunder," said Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express. "The decision will not be approved by the British public," said Britain's biggest paper, the tabloid Daily Mirror. From the London Times there was an uncomfortable silence. But for all these reservations about the Queen's decision, the expected birth within the next...
...Nauseating," cried London's Daily Telegraph. "A deliberate gesture of contempt," roared Lord Beaverbrook's Express. Just as angrily, Nasser's newspaper Al Gumhuria retorted: "Suppose we make not one but a thousand museums to commemorate the horrible attack on us-what business is that of London's?" Stiffening his upper lip, Selwyn Lloyd took the view that Nasser could not have known of the insult in advance...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Suicide Run to Murmansk, the most dangerous convoy trip of World War II, is revisited on film by some men who were there when the going was tough. Guests include former Foreign Correspondent Walter Kerr; David Sinclair, a British sea captain; Lord Beaverbrook: and a U.S. Navy survivor, Charles M. Ulrich...