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...Europeans who are suspicious of the Marshall Plan-or actively hostile -are card-holding Commies. Some are Communist dupes who find it easier to accept the Kremlin's line: "a plan for the enslavement of the peoples of working Europe by the American imperialists." Others, like British Presslord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, have a different objection. They believe that their countries: 1) can recover through their own efforts from here on; 2) must avoid becoming "dependencies" of the U.S. Said a retailer near London, borrowing a Daily Express theme: "We were wrong in the first place to accept...
...Trades Union Congress and the Labor Party took over the paper -but couldn't make ends meet. Capitalists Beaverbrook and Rothermere knew better than the Herald's proletarian-hearted editors what the British workingman wanted to read...
...Editor Cudlipp was an office boy on a Welsh paper at 14, a London theater critic at 20. When Beaverbrook made him boss of his Evening Standard at 27, Cudlipp became Fleet Street's youngest editor.* Leaving the Beaver for the "politically more congenial" Herald in 1938, Cudlipp, an amateur versifier, dashed off his own epitaph: "One satisfaction I have had, and this will be eternal; I may become a left-wing cad, but I once ran a high-class journal...
...London, Mme. Tussaud's waxworks voted out a few old favorites. Set to be scrapped: Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, ex-King Refer of Yugoslavia, the late Actor George Arliss, the late "strongman" John Metaxas of Greece and Lord Beaverbrook. From their waxy ruins will rise the figure of Comic Danny Kaye, latest toast of London. Also to be unveiled shortly: a carrot-haired effigy of Greer Garson, first actress to be waxed since Katharine Hepburn...
Shortly after Dunkirk, as a bright Beaverboy of 27, Mike Foot helped write Guilty Men, an indictment of the Chamberlain government (TIME, Sept. 30, 1940). The Beaver pretended not to notice. But when Foot gave the Tories the other barrel in The Trial of Mussolini, Beaverbrook dropped him as editor. Since mid-1944, Foot has done his sharpshooting from his column in the Laborite Daily Herald. ("The central problem of Toryism remains the same: how to get the poor to vote for the rich man's cause...