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...more than half a million persons. Suddenly they got their money back, every pence and pound of it, each contributor receiving a crisp cheque and a "personal" (mimeographed) letter from the leader of the party, the man who was to have been Prime Minister, William Maxwell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook...
...everyone knows, Lords Beaverbrook and Rothermere are the "Hearsts of England," blatant makers of colossal newspaper fortunes, once bitter rivals, then friends and collaborators in the United Empire Party, and today goodness knows what. Last week Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere seemed to have been made a fool of by his blatant twin, seemed to have been left with a penniless orphan party on his hands, which he doggedly announced he would bring up "until we have achieved all our aims...
Couched in the most personal terms and signed by Baron Beaverbrook, the manifesto began...
...warpaint and to cut his most com ical capers, and Baldwin looks the other way while some of his lieutenants threaten all who dare to believe in the economic union of the empire." In a ringing appeal for contributions to the new party's fund, last week, Baron Beaverbrook declared that all receipts and expenditures will be publicly audited, challenged the old guard parties to be equally frank about their money. Within 24 hours contributions totaling $92,500 had poured in, and the Beavermere press thundered that five members of Parliament elected as Conservatives had gone over...
Significance. Baron Beaverbrook is frankly out to become Prime Minister, vaunts himself a "business statesman." Viscount Rothermere has failed to get political preferment for his son, Cecil Harmsworth, from any of the old line parties, hopes to make the young man an Ambassador. Last week the Beaver-meres insisted that they would contest "more than 50 seats" at the next General Election. All political dopesters agreed that the effect of this would be to defeat Conservative candidates in constituencies contested by a United Empirist, and probably to elect the Labor candidates in such constituencies. In other words the new party...