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...Battles: Their Influence upon History and Civilization. In this and other writings, straying from the strict military field, he has also urged a totalitarian England, called parliamentary governments "mobocracies," praised the discipline, comradeship and culture engendered by fascist dictators. Today he writes a lusty, critical weekly article for Lord Beaverbrook who enjoys a good rumpus. In his free time he applies his considerable talents to occultism...
Englishmen hearing Eden's few specific accounts of bayonetings, floggings and clubbings knew that he was as impassioned as any American. Said Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express: "If there lingered in any man's mind a spirit of doubt that Britain would throw the whole terrible weight of her military power against the Japanese the day Hitler is done for, it must have snapped on reading what Eden said...
...strange pair in British public life have been Mephistophelean Lord Beaverbrook, 64, nominally Tory, and the editor of his deft, double-edged Evening Standard: Michael Foot, 30, cold, keen and Left. The Beaver has a weakness for tough guys, likes raising hell, hates softness in any form. Mike Foot hates old-line Tories. Last week the two deftly altered their two-year-old official relationship and deftly left their unofficial partnership untouched...
...Belisha, Sir Samuel Hoare, Viscount Simon and many another resounding name as character witnesses for the Duce. In 1940 Foot and two other Standard men, using the name of "Cato," wrote Guilty Men, an indictment of prewar appeasers, blunderers and incompetents, including several attacked again by Cassius. That time, Beaverbrook had carefully looked the other...
This week the Standard announced a new writer: Michael Foot, whose signed contributions will also appear in Beaverbrook's Daily and Sunday Express. But henceforth, the Beaver assumes no editorial responsibility for Mike Foot-and Mike Foot none for the Beaver...