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...fact that (as one put it) "the unspeakable, anti-British, anti-empire and pro-Communist Bevan" should be allowed to publicize himself and "his Moscow-trained Communist dictator friend Tito" in a "decent . . . newspaper." The Standard, owned by Sevan's personal friend and political enemy Lord Beaverbrook, replied that Mr. Sevan's report had been printed "because it is news...
Commented the Daily Express, another Beaverbrook paper: the Bevan articles give "an extraordinary insight into the character and aims of this man who hopes one day to become Prime Minister of Britain . . . In describing Tito, Mr. Bevan is describing the sort of man that he himself would like to be . . . the political powers which he himself would like to have in this country...
...experience was nothing new for Delmer. In 20 years of global reporting for Lord Beaverbrook, he has been expelled from Nazi Germany, Fascist Spain, Communist Czechoslovakia and Poland...
...library presentation ceremony was held in the $250,000 Beaverbrook Gymnasium (his gift for 1939). Later, Beaverbrook presided with uninhibited gusto over a black-tie dinner, where he heard himself described as "an astounding combination of Puck and Napoleon." The Beaver lingered until 4 a.m., helping the 250 guests put away 95 bottles of champagne, uncounted slugs of whisky, with many a lusty song...
Such sensational jottings are the result of long practice. Don Iddon began his reporting career in London, at age 18, with such torrid features as "The Cocktail Girl Myth" (for the Sunday Mercury), later caught on at Beaverbrook's Daily Express, which sent him to New York in 1937. He landed on St. Patrick's day and, say critical Fleet Streeters, "he still writes as though every day is St. Patrick's day in New York." In 1938 he switched to the Daily Mail, started his column five years later and thereby got what he proudly describes...