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Next came a problem still unsolved: how to deal with the British Ministry of Supply's forthright fireball, beaver-like Lord Beaverbrook. Simplest procedure would be to appoint a single U.S. head of defense production, who would negotiate and decide directly with Beaverbrook. But thus far there was no single U.S. head. The President still preferred to delegate problems individually. Meanwhile Beaverbrook's effectiveness deeply impressed many White House advisers. (Particularly bowled over was OPM's William Knudsen, who had long agreed with U.S. automobile companies that they were unable to convert more than 15% of their...
...Herbert Ames, K.T., will speak at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the Upper Common Room of the Union on the training of Canadian pilots. The talk is entitled "The Beaver Has Wings...
Critics of Munich men did not worry about dynamic Supply Minister Lord Beaverbrook, whose verbal leaps into bed with Russia have been spectacular, who has reportedly urged a British Expeditionary Force in the Ukraine or the Donets Basin. But the testy, growling Beaver himself was stirring up a Cabinet crisis that might bring about a drastic reorganization. Last week he was wheezing with his periodic asthma. His sickness may have been partly political, for he threatened to resign. Behind his threat was seen a warning that he would like the non existent post of Minister of Production, a powerful combination...
Only other candidate often mentioned is plump Labor Minister Ernest Bevin, who has got himself in Dutch with Labor by supporting the Army and Navy policy of taking skilled industrial workers for military service. Last week the Beaver, who wants more & more skilled women for a huge production program in the Midlands, approached open battle with Minister Bevin on the question of woman-power...
...Production, about Munich, or about anything else. But the plainest words spoken to Winston Churchill last week came from one of his and one of Lord Beaverbrook's good friends. Said the scholarly London Economist, partly owned by the Prime Minister's friend Brendan Bracken and the Beaver's first lieutenant Sir Walter Layton...