Word: beaverbrook
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...captain in World War I's famed Rainbow Division. The marriage lasted only eight years, possibly, friends say, because even in its happiest days Alicia was still closer to her father than to her husband. Wherever he went-to visit Britain's Lord Beaverbrook, to roam New York's subways or to inspect the drought areas of the Southwest-she went along. Childless, and with little to occupy her but New York's fast social life, she regularly did the rounds of raucous nightclubs and the more discreet Park Avenue and Long Island parties...
...Laborites gave their leader a rousing 63% to 8% cheer. The poll had been taken at the tour's outset, and perhaps subsequent events had changed a few minds: the British press, at least, was developing serious objections. "Not since Marco Polo," observed Lord Beaverbrook's breezy Daily Express, "has there been a more astonishing pilgrimage to China...
...anti-German feeling now being stirred up. Part of it is political: Nye Bevan and his left-wing Socialists are setting up a hue and cry about "Guns for the Huns"-not bothering, of course, to point out that the Communists have already armed East Germany. In Lord Beaverbrook, the maverick Tory press lord, the Socialists have an unexpected ally. His big Daily Express (circ. 4,000,000) is so het up that it caricatures Chancellor Adenauer as a Mephistopheles surrounded by Junker (see cut), and not content with whatever debatable influence his editorials have, Beaverbrook has been buying...
...opinionated, and its photographs unsettling. If he persisted in publishing it, he would be fired from his ?2,200-a-year ($6,160) government job. Angrily, Lord Russell decided to go ahead, "whatever the cost to my career," and the air was rent with cries of government censorship. Promptly Beaverbrook's Daily Express proclaimed last week that it would publish daily extracts from "the Book They Tried...
...This is a day of triumph for all the timorous at home and the wicked abroad who want Britain to be small and weak and to count for little," cried Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express. Last week in the House of Commons, Sir Winston Churchill, who in 1942 defiantly declared that he had not become Prime Minister "to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire," sat glum and with bowed head as his government announced that Britain was withdrawing its troops from Egypt...