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While Winston Churchill and the rest of the War Cabinet remained silent, Lord Beaverbrook's powerful newspapers began taking pot shots at Sir Stafford. Wrote the Evening Standard's brilliant, liberal editor Frank Owen: "Cripps had better get off that 'it-all-depends-on-you' theme. . . . We have had enough appeals to self-sacrifice. What the nation needs is not appeals but orders...
...letter from Observer Director Sir Edward Grigg, lately resigned Joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for War. Said Grigg (no relation to new War Secretary Sir Percy James Grigg), Garvin had sinned: 1) in urging Churchill to keep his post as Defense Minister; 2) in saying that Beaverbrook should stay in the Cabinet. The Astors, who despise Beaverbrook, want Lloyd George in the Cabinet to check Churchill...
M.P.s and Britons as a whole were satisfied that Sir Stafford had presented his case well, seemingly forgot that only last month Lord Beaverbrook had loomed as the powerhouse in British politics. In Sir Stafford's rise and Beaverbrook's fall there was a curious political paradox. Though Lord Beaverbrook played an infinitely more important role than Sir Stafford in improving Anglo-Soviet relations, the Beaver had to make way for the people's choice. But Canadian-born M.P. Garfield Weston (a biscuit tycoon) had another version: "We are told that Lord Beaverbrook has gone because...
...other new appointment to the War Cabinet was that of spruce, red-haired Oliver Lyttelton as Minister of State, concerned with production. Onetime organizer of the world tin cartel, he replaced Production Minister Lord Beaverbrook, who was detailed to Washington as production liaison officer...
Prime Minister Churchill also ousted elegant Tory Minister of Aircraft Production Lieut. Colonel J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon. He was replaced by Colonel J. J. Llewellin, formerly one of Lord Beaverbrook's favorite hustlers in the Aircraft Production Ministry...