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...first films to appear were unusually amateurish. The appearance in the news pictures of Ensign Franklin Jr. and Captain Elliott Roosevelt, fully uniformed, wearing the shoulder aiguillettes of Presidential aides, seemed to exasperate many a U.S. citizen who likes everything about the President but his family. When Lord Beaverbrook, British Minister of Supply, turned up suddenly in Washington, all these cumulative exasperations were expressed by a local wit who snarled: "Beaverbrook came over to see if the British had left anything...
...Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a man whose refrigerated attitude somewhat resembles Mr. Welles's; Lord Cherwell, the Prime Minister's science adviser, recently knighted (June 12), a pioneer advocate of the balloon barrage, a vegetarian chum who constantly beats Churchill at Monopoly; Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's Minister of Supply; General Sir John Greer Dill, chief of the British Army's Imperial Staff; Sir Wilfrid Rhodes Freeman, Vice Chief of the Air Staff; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound, First Sea Lord...
Into Washington last week, hot from the Churchill-Roosevelt sea strategy-conference, flew 62-year-old Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, the British Minister of Supply, his dynamic little wrinkled-apple face alternately creased with huge smiles and deep worry lines. Beaverbrook, the British production fireball, had one simple mission: get more of everything for the British. At a restless press conference on the British Embassy porch he obligingly reported the fact, and even obliged cameramen by patting Ambassador Halifax's dachshund, Franklin ("What if the demmed thing bites me?" he demanded). But further than that he offered little except...
That also was the question that concerned Lord Beaverbrook's visit to the U.S. This week the first overt step was taken. It was announced that Pan American Airways would ferry U.S. planes to West Africa and thence to the Middle East...
This week Lord Beaverbrook, conferring furiously, worked through the days and into the nights, made the rounds of the multiple defense agencies, getting up production steam, stating first needs first. Only one thing he did not attempt to buy on the cuff. He sent his gentleman's gentleman, "Knockles," to buy him three $10 shirts, two $2.50 ties, and several pairs of socks. "Knockles" paid $46.42-in cash...