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...Lord Beaverbrook's anti-Socialist London Express fumed with disappointment: "The picture emerging from the Tory statement is that of half-socialized, state-guided economy ... If Britain is going to recover by the methods of Socialism, would it not be wiser to keep the Socialists in power...
...newspaper chain (22 papers), testified: "The notion that I sit at my desk examining every piece of news as it comes in and saying 'publish this' or 'don't publish that' ... is too fantastic . . . [But] of course I am consulted and give decisions." Lord Beaverbrook, a lusty battler for free enterprise and Empire first, snapped: "I run my papers [Daily Express, Evening Standard] purely for the purpose of making propaganda ... On the few occasions when [my editors] have had different views on an Empire matter to myself, I talked them out of it." The commission...
...Said Lord Beaverbrook's astonished Evening Standard: "Here at last is a foreign orchestra that can play God Save the King, although nearly two centuries have passed since it ceased to be the American anthem...
...British government gave the long-awaited word that it had increased the newsprint ration, and Fleet Street went forth to battle for circulation. Last week, as the gains and casualties were totted up after a month of heavy fighting, the London Daily Mirror claimed victory. By passing Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, the tabloid Mirror had become the world's biggest daily. In January its circulation had jumped 487,000, to 4,187,403. Commented the sound, small (circ. 42,000) weekly London Economist: "The success of the Daily Mirror is a sorry reflection upon a democracy, sometimes...
Born. To Benjamin Welles, 32, elder son of ex-Diplomat Sumner Welles and New York Timesman in the London bureau, and Cynthia Monteith Welles, 31, ex-wife of Lord Beaverbrook's son Max: their first child, a daughter; in London. Name: Serena. Weight...