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...London Daily Express, advocating colored colonial Members of Parliament, Press Lord Beaverbrook took Ellington as a fine example of his race, described him as "a genius of Negro music. He sat by the side of his host, modest, dignified, delighting all the company with his gay mind and splendid bearing...
...SELLOUT . . . THE FULL EXPOSURE OF BRITAIN'S PERIL. So read the headlines in the London Daily Express, run by crusty old (77) Lord Beaverbrook, last of the imperialists. And what was the Express so vexed about-Cyprus, Singapore, Suez? No, the deadly peril to Empire, the "mortifying and shameful act of surrender" was the British Cabinet's decision to permit The Texas Co. to buy the British-owned Trinidad...
...Beaverbrook's Express. He had learned from a Canadian Cabinet Minister, said Sir Beverley, that "the policy of the big oil interests of the U.S. is to achieve a monopolistic control of the natural oil in the English-speaking world...
...week's end, however, as more and more of the facts came out, Lord Beaverbrook was left to cry shame alone. The rival Daily Mail, which had originally urged the government to "turn it down," after thinking it over a few days, concluded: "On the face of it there is much to be said for the Trinidad oil deal...
...documentation would numb the shock which the deportation caused at home and abroad, they were mistaken. Cried British Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell: "This seems to me an act of folly." Echoed the Liberal Party's Leader Clement Davies: "An act of madness." While imperialist-minded newspapers like Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express approved, the Manchester Guardian editorialized: "By this action the British government will have made Archbishop Makarios more than ever the leader of his people . . . Now there can be no settlement...