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Readers blinked their eyes and looked again; there, in Lord Beaverbrook's arch-Tory London Evening Standard, in a column-long leader, was a eulogy of white-topped "Mr. A. J. Cummings . . . the distinguished columnist of the Liberal Party who writes in the News Chronicle. He is a warrior in defense of liberty, a crusader in the cause of justice, freedom and righteousness...
Like Balaam, the leader hadn't started out that way. A fortnight ago, Rival Editor Cummings had given the Beaverbrook press a resounding thwack. "The Daily Express," he wrote in his News Chronicle column, "seems to have the British Empire on the brain ... It opposes Marshall aid and Western Union as policies inimical to the Empire [and] keeps up its dreary drip of criticism unfortified by any rational alternatives...
Then he spent a brief, unhappy term working for Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express-a career terminated by a typically Waughlike misunderstanding. One day Editor Beverley Baxter saw Evelyn lolling in a chair in the reporters' room, and asked him his name. "Waw," was the answer that reached Baxter's ears, and, thinking that the young man was making a rude noise, the editor fired...
...Lord Beaverbrook is Britain's most brilliant newspaper publisher. His principal paper, the Daily Express (circ. 3,850,000), is the largest in the world. Brief, colorful, clear, the Express is also, technically, one of the best newspapers in the world. Its editorial opinions are no wiser or more enlightened than Beaver-brook's own: the paper is his mouthpiece...
...brook's opinions color much of the news in the Express, the paper also reports many events that contravene his editorial views. And in The Beaver's Evening Standard, Cartoonist David Low goes right on poking fun at The Beaver's ruggedly individualistic stand. But Lord Beaverbrook's strictures on the U.S. have convinced many a Briton that the Daily Express is consciously and consistently anti-American. Actually it is friendly toward the U.S., but hostile to much of its policy and actions. The total impression the Express gives is that what the U.S. is doing...