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...changed the cover for the first time in 109 years. For a special issue on British television, Muggeridge replaced Punch's elves, capering gnomes and rogues with caricatures of Britons debating commercially sponsored-TV on the British Broadcasting Corp. (among the recognizable faces: Press Lords Beaverbrook, Rothermere, Camrose and the Archbishop of Canterbury). "The BBC," said Muggeridge with characteristic irreverence, "is a heaven-sent Punch target because it is one of those bloody things that takes itself seriously, believes it has a mission, and is pompous about it. All things Punch is interested in puncturing...
...said Calcutta's conservative Amrita Bazar Patrika, "if humanity is pushed into another holocaust by her myopic politicians." But there were notable exceptions to the cries of grief and indignation. In staunchly anti-Communist Greece and Turkey, pro-government papers backed the U.S. position. In London, Beaverbrook's Daily Express raised a lone voice blaming the government for letting India "drive a wedge between Britain...
Fifteen years ago, Lord Beaverbrook's powerful Daily Express (circ. 4,000,000) tried hard to convince the world that Hitler was not dangerous. Last week Beaver-brook's Express set the tone for wanting to do business with the Communists, in words that Nye Bevan could not top: "In Britain," said the Express, "the people want world peace . . . The conviction prevails that the world is ready for peace and that governments, whatever their character, must yield to the popular will on this issue . . . Statesmen must obey their master, the public, when the master has made...
...alone the de-emphasis of Margaret (which caught U.S. headline writers) but the new emphasis on Philip created a stir in Britain. Lord Beaverbrook's Tory Daily Express and the Liberal Manchester Guardian, which find few issues to agree upon, both agreed that the regency should be kept "in the line of succession" rather than pass to one who is not in the line, i.e., Princess Margaret should have the regency. There was also a deep undertow of nervousness and grumbling in the starchy back benches of the Tory Party, whose men are properly silent in public and often...
...story was that such a romance was "quite unthinkable." but by last week Britain's press and public were in debate over the most controversial royal romance since that of Edward VIII and Wally Simpson. IF THEY WANT TO MARRY, WHY SHOULDN'T THEY? demanded Lord Beaverbrook's Sunday Express, an old champion of Edward's romance. But the austere Church of England Newspaper, shook a stern finger.. Princess Margaret, it warned, "is a dutiful churchwoman who knows what strong views leaders of the church hold in this matter . . . The thought of the religious principle...