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Just before the Tories convened, Lord Beaverbrook, most powerful of Tory publishers, splashed across his front pages his own ten-point program for Britain's salvation. His main points: ¶ All-out effort for empire self-sufficiency ("The empire comes first . . . Without the empire not only is there no hope for the future-there is no future"). ¶ A minimum wage of ?6 ($16.80) for British workers, but at the same time "no limitation on dividends. Pioneers should be encouraged to go into . . . new industries...
Thoughts of Spring. Churchill, for the record, dampened his friend's ardor: "Lord Beaverbrook's opinions are his own but . . . must not be taken as representing the considered policy of the Conservative Party." But Churchill specifically rejected only one of Beaverbrook's points-the minimum wage. Despite past political differences, it looked as if Churchill and The Beaver might be allies again in the stormy election weather that lay ahead...
...hereditary peer is Canada-born, self-made Lord Beaverbrook. He was made first Baron of Beaverbrook in 1917 for "political services rendered...
Franks was then sent to Downing Street to give Churchill the right set of figures. Bevin was deeply impressed by Franks as "the only man in the Ministry of Supply whom Beaverbrook couldn't bully...
...Furious, Beaverbrook returned to the Supply Ministry with his figures, called for Franks and asked him if they were right. Franks told him candidly they were wrong. But as Beaverbrook was still reluctant to admit the error to his archfoe, Bevin, he ordered Franks to try to find some way to reconcile these figures with the right ones. Franks smiled, went to work with his statisticians and devised an ingenious way of doing it. Having proved he could achieve this little triumph of twisted cunning, Franks burst out laughing. "That," said he, "is what I would call chicanery...