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...Lord Beaverbrook's bright and blasty London Daily Express last week reached the world's record daily circulation of 2,876,163. One reason: John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Michael Morton was providing the best possible coverage of the hasp situation. Reported...
...four long days last week Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's Cabinet member-in-charge-of-aviation, the U.S. State Department's Assistant Secretary Adolf Berle, and seven other U.S. and British aviation "experts" talked over a pink-blottered mahogany table in the lime green, fresco-ceilinged conference room of London's ancient Gwydyr House (where The Beaver keeps his office as Lord Privy Seal). On the fifth day, The Beaver issued a vague press statement. So plushily vague was the statement that the dignified New York Times' London Bureau Head Raymond Daniell let fly with a parody...
...main on-the-record result of the talks, cabled Daniell sarcastically, was "that, while Mr. Berle and Lord Beaverbrook had not come to any agreement upon . . . any ... of the specific problems, they had agreed that the appearance of agreement on the basis of an understanding in the future was important enough to justify postponing the decisions until later." Reporters who flocked to a Beaver-Berle press conference the next day felt the same way: one U.S. correspondent was so annoyed that he shouted that the two gentlemen's combined efforts had produced "not a line worth printing," and slammed...
...Third member of a potent Downing Street trio is Minister of Information Brendan Bracken. Londoners crack that the B.B.C.-Beaverbrook, Bracken, Churchill-has taken over Britain's management...
Particularly, he did not care for that dynamic bundle of energy and irritation, Lord Beaverbrook.* At this point, Churchill must have bristled. Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, is many things to the Prime Minister-a friend with a flair and dash otherwise lacking in the men around Churchill; a tough, nationalistic figure who usefully personifies Britain's instinctive, rising desire to depend first on herself and her Dominions (see p. 33) in a world where "the United Nations" are none too united. (Again the knowing Economist spieled a commentary: "Lord Beaverbrook is a believer in strong diplomacy and splendid isolation...