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...Chicago Daily News (never to be confused with the anglophobic Tribune), Publisher John S. Knight addressed a blunt open letter to British Publisher Lord Beaverbrook. Its subject: the U.S. people's opinion of the British war effort. Knight's verdict...
...Beaver, marshaling facts & figures in rebuttal, promptly replied in an open letter to "Dear Jack." Beaverbrook's verdict: absurd, my dear fellow...
...group of Oxford economists opposed Bretton Woods because it "tended to outlaw discriminatory practices" held to be necessary in Britain's desperate debtor position. The Beaverbrook papers criticized Bretton Woods as a return to an inflexible gold standard. Sharpest attacks came from a "young Tory" M.P., Robert John Graham Boothby, once Churchill's private secretary, who charged that advocates interpreted Bretton Woods as the gold standard in the U.S. and as a flexible system in Britain. With all the weight of his authority, Lord Keynes called Bretton Woods "the exact opposite of the gold standard...
Comic Relief. Britain's first election campaign in nearly ten years had been punctuated by high jinks. The name-calling between Labor leaders and rambunctious Tory Lord Beaverbrook (who artfully drew most of the opposition fire) continued without letup. Young Tory Brendan Bracken, 44, First Lord of the Admiralty, had more than names flung at him : a milk bottle tossed through the window of his car narrowly missed his head. Laborite A. V. Alexander, ex-First Lord of the Admiralty, narrowly missed the nomination deadline because the car buretor of his car had been "tampered with." Bernard Shaw briefly...
...Laski, professor of political science and author of 19 books and countless pamphlets, chiefly on the necessity of leftism, was alleged to have made at a Labor Party rally in Newark, Nottinghamshire. To a question from the crowd, Laski was reported (by the Nottingham Guardian, and later by Lord Beaverbrook's cockalorum conservative London Daily Express) to have replied: "If we cannot get the reforms we desire, we shall not hesitate to use violence, even if it means revolution...