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...immeasurably remote public opinion" made this impossible. Even so, he emphasized the point that no comparable credit had ever before been extended in peacetime. The U.S. conditions, after all, were aimed "at the restoration of multilateral trade, which is a system upon which British commerce essentially depends." Lord Beaverbrook had argued that Britain could get along by trading in her own sterling area. Keynes's crushing comment: "I have never heard of statistics one-fiftieth part so phoney...
...Jackson called the "dramatic disparity" between victors and vanquished, were less pleased, got ready to fight back. At a press conference (at which they faced some 200 hostile reporters, most of whom jeered and booed) they announced an impressive list of witnesses they wanted subpoenaed, including Lady Astor, Lords Beaverbrook, Londonderry and Derby, all supposedly belonging to the prewar "Cliveden Set" of after-dinner appeasers...
...When he tried Fleet Street, he couldn't get a job. So he bought a horse and greengrocer's cart, started to tour England, writing free-lance stories. These led eventually to a job on the Sunday Express. A piece he wrote about Sculptor Jacob Epstein caught Beaverbrook's eye. With typical Beaver whimsey, the boss made Williams a financial writer...
...Francis Williams became editor of the Herald. He built its circulation to 2,000,000, second only to Beaverbrook's Daily Express. He put statistics together to prove that Hitler was rearming-and soon Conservative Winston Churchill was quoting Williams to the bumbling Baldwin government...
Peter Aitken, 34. auto-racing second son of Lord Beaverbrook (and brother of bemedalled R.A.F. veteran Max Aitken) was fined $42 and given a two months' jail sentence for drunken driving in London...