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Since Edward of Vales as "Empire Salesman" has visited Argentina and has not visited Soviet Russia, the Mother Country's stand last week was somewhat grotesque. At once her No. i delegate, the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, was furiously attacked in England by the Hearstian papers of Baron Beaverbrook, himself Canadian-born...
Above his own signature on the most prominent page of his London Sunday Express, Baron Beaverbrook clarioned that Mr. Baldwin has no intention of accepting "the fair offers made by the Dominions...
...Beaverbrook Blocked. The difficulties of Price Bros. & Co., Ltd., Canada's old newsprint firm, seemed ended when Lord Beaverbrook had a new directorate elected, his brother AllarrAnderson Aitken made president, and then suggested a plan of reorganization (TIME, June 13). Last week Lord Beaverbrook abruptly announced that his plan had not been acceptable to "several security holders and some of the creditors," had therefore been withdrawn. Chief features of the plan were to postpone sinking fund payments for five years, stop preferred dividends for five years, pay off creditors with income debentures (interest dependent upon earnings...
Typical of the "scoops" which Baron Beaverbrook likes to score in his lively London Daily Express was an interview last week with famed Irish Jockey Michael Beary, recent winner of the Irish Derby on Dastur...
...Disillusion Must Result." Exuberant over the prospects at Ottawa seemed Britain's "Press lords," Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere, whose Hearstian papers have a joint circulation of 10,000,000 in the British Isles and who have plugged blatantly for years in favor of something called "Empire Free Trade." Serenely last week Sir Arthur Salter, British economist famed in the U. S. for his scholarly best seller Recovery?The Second Effort ($3), observed: "The misleading phrase 'Empire Free Trade' has caused much confusion in the English public mind...