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...York Times Sunday Magazine section carried a glowing analysis called "The 'New Look' of the President." In London, Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express took up the cry: "Call him a new Ike. For there's no doubt about it. Dwight D. Eisenhower is a changed man today." To the studious newspaper reader and radio listener, it seemed that everybody and everybody's brother, aunt, cousin and cook were prattling happily about the New Eisenhower. It was an odd business because, in point of obvious fact, the New Eisenhower had been around for quite a while...
Full Holler. Characteristically, the British press, until a few weeks ago reviling Ike as a senescent, bewildered man ("a man who can hardly perform his day-to-day tasks," said Beaverbrook's Express last April), now turned full-holler the other way round. Under the headline...
...British press, Adenauer was right in his fear of being isolated as a peace disturber just because he warned against the "artificial euphoria" that might result from Khrushchev's visit. The London press attacked him in the same vein as Pravda does. "This man is dangerous," huffed Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express. "The policy of Dr. Adenauer would lead to war." To Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail, "the self-important old chancellor" was reminiscent of "a bullfrog who puffed himself up until he burst...
...newspapers and TV"). Son of a Toronto barber, Roy Thomson started collecting his fortune when he set up a bush-country radio station, soon took over a bush-country weekly in a fast deal: "One dollar down and chase me for the rest." Like Fleet Street's Lord Beaverbrook, he eventually outgrew Canada, six years ago bought Edinburgh's Scotsman, settled in Scotland, soon had a corner on Scottish commercial TV ("The most beautiful music to me is a spot commercial at ten bucks a whack") and an approved coat of arms. Motto: NEVER A BACKWARD STEP...
Feeling its widening independence, Canada asked the King to stop conferring hereditary titles on its citizens, because "it seemed alien to the life of Canada."† Today, a Canadian who hopes to be ennobled must live in Britain, as does Ontario-born Lord Beaverbrook. Canada began to issue passports, changed "subjects" to "citizens," stopped sending appeals from its Supreme Court to Britain's Privy Council...