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...public does not mind them, does not feel what they do is wrong. You cannot blame the police in such a case. The police are merely the instruments whereby the public sense of what is right or wrong expresses itself. . . ." Neither of the "Press Peers," Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere, cares a hoot for "Civilization." The Daily Express (Beaverbrook) merely hung upon Legs a second screaming series of articles about "American desperadoes" (the first series was hung on the shooting of Alfred ["Jake"] Lingle in Chicago-TIME, June 16 et seq.). Meanwhile the Daily Mail (Rothermere) hired Edgar Wallace, No.1...
...Dominions explained that they were not asking Great Britain to adopt the double scheme of abolishing tariff barriers within the Empire and building a tariff wall around it, as has been sensationally urged for more than a year by Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere in the name of "Empire Free Trade" (TIME...
...Viscount Northcliffe died insane but his Daily Mail was hitting at the 2,000,000 mark, so he was called a great man. He had the kind of brains often prized as first-class because it produces numerically big results. Though one of his technical peers (Lord Salisbury) called his magnum opus "a journal produced by office boys for office boys," Panegyrist Hamilton Fyfe dares repeat the slur, trusting in his faith that the big battalions are on the side...
...Northcliffe subordinate, onetime member of Northcliffe's board of propaganda, admires his late great master but tells some surprising things about him. Says he: Northcliffe supplied most of the ideas for his news papers but his rash expenditures had to be constantly checked by his more businesslike brother (now Viscount Rother-mere). Fyfe thinks Northcliffe made a mistake when he twice refused Lloyd George's offer of a cabinet post, thinks Northcliffe realized it too late when he saw there was no chance of getting the Premiership, thinks the disappointment may have helped addle Northcliffe's brains...
Arbiter & Wit. At about this time Lord Birkenhead delivered his memorable knife thrust at the late Viscount Younger of Leckie (then Sir George Younger) who fancied himself for the Prime Ministry. "Since the day when the proverbial frog swelled itself up in rivalry with the bull until it burst," he said in part, "no frog ever has been in such grave physical danger as Sir George Younger." Of the Bonar Law Cabinet in 1923 Lord Birkenhead said: "They remind me of the Duke of Wellington's observation upon his generals: 'I don't know whether they will frighten the enemy...