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...Beaverbrook In? Other pressures are at work. Fundamentally, Britons want a change-and dare not make a complete change at the top while the war is still on. A shift in the Foreign Office, perhaps others elsewhere, will give Britons a feeling that their Government has responded to their deep desire...
Some of the pressures are personal, and are remarkably similar to the irks of Washington. Brash, capable, erratic Lord Beaverbrook has come back fast in the P.M.'s esteem, is now very close to Mr. Churchill. It is no secret that Churchill. Beaverbrook and pervasive, ambitious Minister of Information Brendan Bracken are three big bugs-in-a-rug at No. 10 Downing Street. Too often to suit him, Eden has felt lately that high policy came down to him from this trio, and particularly from Beaverbrook. Last week some London correspondents, pondering Beaverbrook's comeback, guessed that...
...remained for the Yorkshire Post, a newspaper controlled by the family of Eden's wife, to report a more astonishing possibility: that Lord Beaverbrook may succeed Eden at the Foreign Office. Growled the Post: "Lord Beaverbrook's dynamic energies have more than once rendered the country valuable services, but he has never displayed a great interest in the affairs of Europe, and tact in negotiation is not commonly regarded as one of his outstanding gifts...
...West Coast correspondent for Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express was one of the busiest men in Los Angeles last week. Covering the Mann Act trial of Charles Spencer Chaplin for both British and Australian newspapers, he had to file two separate stories every day. For Britons, to whom British Subject Chaplin is still the lovable, great little cockney comedian, he was carefully sympathetic. But for Australians he could be tougher and more realistic...
...industrious ministers have no power to make policy; their committees can only draft and recommend; and the Cabinet seldom meets. Yes or no must be said. It must be said, nominally at any rate, by Mr. Churchill, who has his friends by him. There is the Lord Privy Seal [Beaverbrook]. There is the Minister of Information [Brendan Bracken], a faithful and able lieutenant. But they are not policymakers...