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Harddriving, shrewd Lord Beaverbrook (London Daily Express, Evening Standard) moved to double the Express' U.S. staff. He added a reporter to his one-man Washington bureau, planned to inaugurate a San Francisco office, make two or three more men available for national coverage out of New York City. Explained Cecil Vincent Raymond Thompson, chief of the Express' Manhattan bureau: "The idea is to increase the quality more than the quantity of output ... to provide the best possible inside on America for Britain...
About six weeks ago the four-page Express started a daily back-page column of comment on the U.S. which is supplemented by special articles. Last month Beaverbrook ordered his ace war correspondent, Alan Moorehead, from the Egyptian battlefront to the U.S. for a series of pieces on America's war effort...
...Lord Beaverbrook's son, R.A.F. Wing Commander Max Aitken, has said he believes the 177 has a 2,000-mile range with 1½-ton load. If so, it could probably fly the Atlantic with a half-ton load for token raids...
Among them are the Duke of Kent and Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands -Lord Beaverbrook, Publisher of the Daily Express, and Sir Walter Citrine, head of the British Trades Union Council-H. G. Wells, Noel Coward, Brendan Bracken, Lady Astor and many other people high in the official, industrial and intellectual life of the Empire...
Britain's gabbiest second fronter-the fierce-tongued Lord Beaverbrook-could never go to bed until his R.A.F. elder son had phoned him: "All's well-goodnight!" For Wing Commander Max Aitken, 32, is the apple of the Beaver's eye. Some said it was the Beaver who got Max grounded in the Air Ministry last year. But it was only temporarily. Flying a Beaufighter, Son Max landed last week with a cocky message for the Beaver: he had bagged two Nazi bombers over Britain, bringing his total to twelve...