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...transatlantic flying boat taxied to a mooring in Miami, and out stepped a brisk welterweight with a carved-coconut face, Britain's fabulous Lord Beaverbrook. Scrunched into a black overcoat, he emplaned for Washington. There he dined with the President...
...Maisky & Moscow were saying: let the Allies choose one road, refuse to be fogged and defeated by alternatives and uncertainties. London and Washington responded, at least in part. Britain's Lord Beaverbrook, broadcasting to his native Canada from Miami Beach, emphatically called Russia "the most critical battlefront in the history of civilization." Winston Churchill began to talk of "the spirit of the offensive and counter-attack." The day after Mr. Maisky spoke, Churchill promised Britons some successes along with blood, tears and reverses in 1942. And, if the U.S. public was preoccupied with Australia and MacArthur, Washington...
Britain's liveliest advocate of a second front is tall, bushy-haired Left-Winger Frank Owen, editor of Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard.* Last week he wrote: "Who . . . can go on calculating that in 1943 we can invade the European mainland? The entire equation will have been transformed and totally against us. The best that we could hope for then would be a whole cycle of campaigns to force the entrenched enemy out of a still vaster central fortress...
Production. For over a year the Churchill Government has faced a heavy barrage from the Left on the question of production. As a last resort Oliver Lyttelton was recalled from Cairo to replace Lord Beaverbrook, and last week he formed a Joint War Production Staff to "clamp together" the needs of the three fighting services...
...gave up writing," says Garvin, "I suppose I should die." He has signed a fat contract to write a weekly piece for Beaverbrook's Sunday Express-"but without the Asterisks" (a Garvinesque pun). Meanwhile, although the Observer was mum on the subject, the possible new editor of the Observer was Arthur Mann, BBC governor and ex-editor of the Yorkshire Post, which first cracked open the Wally Simpson scandal in Britain...