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...British politics. In Sir Stafford's rise and Beaverbrook's fall there was a curious political paradox. Though Lord Beaverbrook played an infinitely more important role than Sir Stafford in improving Anglo-Soviet relations, the Beaver had to make way for the people's choice. But Canadian-born M.P. Garfield Weston (a biscuit tycoon) had another version: "We are told that Lord Beaverbrook has gone because he has asthma. But he has had asthma for 20 years. ... I believe he has left because he had become sick unto death of Government committees...
This week Winston Churchill put a new general in command of Britain's vital and much-criticized battle of production on the home front. From the Ministry of State to the Ministry of Supply he moved dynamic, able, Canadian-born Lord Beaverbrook, who proved himself an able pepper-upper as Minister for Aircraft Production...
...economy and repairs while the Prime Minister concentrated on Britain's battles. That appeared to be the chief reason why he created the new office of Minister of State and filled it with small-bodied, huge-headed, 61-year-old Lord Beaverbrook. It is the dynamic, Canadian-born Beaver who as Minister for Aircraft Production has whipped & spurred, rammed & jammed British airplane building up to par and beyond (TiME, March 31). His rampaging, red-tape-slashing, to-hell-with-gentlemanliness methods are probably as great a threat as Britain has to offer to bottlenecks in military production, transport...
Over a year before the war Friedelind had enough of Nazi Germany, moved to Switzerland. At break of war, she appealed to music-loving Arthur Beverley Baxter, M.P., a Canadian-born British Tory, to get her admitted to England. She reached London just before France was smashed...
...Since the death of Rudyard Kipling, the British Empire has found no louder rooter than little Max Aitken, the pulse-taking Express's Canadian-born publisher. The onetime bottle-washer came out with a long personal editorial upholding among other things the aristocratic principle ("an aristocracy of political heritage under the influence of a democratic vote"). But even Publisher Max had "no interest in rescuing Poland and Czecho-Slovakia from the gutter," was for the war only because the Empire...