Word: beaverbrook
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...Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's Tory newspaper tycoon and Lord Privy Seal in Churchill's Cabinet, drew rude sounds from his ex-crony, ex-employe Michael Foot. Said ex-Beaver Boy Foot, who now wears the workingman's collar of London's Laborite Daily Herald: ''Lord Beaverbrook . . . believes in the empire. He's sincere on the subject to the point of incoherence. The only trouble is that the empire doesn't believe in Lord Beaverbrook. . . . He's the old maid of politics...
...Most Britons, even the Conservatives, were divided on the wisdom of holding an election so soon, but Tories in general trusted Churchill's political instinct. Two of Churchill's Cabinet intimates-Lord Beaverbrook (Max Aitken) and Brendan Bracken-had insistently urged an immediate election (for fear that Britons' wartime memories would dim). Just as insistently the Labor Party had urged delay till autumn (in hopes that they would). Quipped Labor's Arthur Greenwood of Max and Brendan: "M & B* can save a man once-it saved Winston when he had pneumonia-but M & B a second...
...parties are scrubbing up their platforms. Under Beaverbrook prodding, the conservatives will press for free enterprise, with state control only where necessary, e.g., social security, housing. Their slogan: Win With Winnie...
...Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard, beating the circulation drum, had a bright idea: a prize of one pound sterling for each answer printed and a grand prize of five pounds for the best answer to "What to do with Hitler?" Some 9,000 tried their hand. On the subject of the Fuhrer, British reserve had been bombed almost out of existence. Some suggestions...
...stepped a third leftist: slight, parchment-faced Sydney R. Elliott, 43, who made his mark on the consumer-cooperative Reynolds News, though the Beaver hates the cooperative movement. Elliott lasted as long as Beaverbrook was pouring his immense vitality into the war effort. Through most of the war Churchill has leaned heavily on Beaverbrook. But last month the Beaver decided that the foreign war was going well enough for his Express to pay more attention to the domestic wars, and opened his recruiting campaign for the Conservative Party with a frontpage editorial: "The Daily Express . . . refuses to conform...