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...Savoy; 5) went to the movies with Anthony Eden* 6) interviewed a score of notables, from Czechoslovakia's Eduard Benes to Zionist Chaim Weizmann; 7) spoke at a fireman's dance in a London suburb. She still looked forward to touring munitions factories with Supply Minister Lord Beaverbrook, interviewing exiled King Peter of Yugoslavia...
...half he raced through an 80-page speech want the Government to appoint a supreme Minister of Production, Churchill put two questions: Who would be big enough to take the job? What could such a minister do that was not already being done by Supply Minister Lord Beaverbrook, Aircraft Production Minister Lieut. Colonel J. C. T. Moore-Brabazon, the supply departments of the Admiralty and the War Office? In the open House, Churchill could hardly give production figures to the last zero and decimal, but the high spots he hit sounded impressive. Admitting some faults and errors of judgment...
First under fire was Supply Minister Lord Beaverbrook, not for inefficiency but for efficiency. Several members feared that his new drive for tank production would take the emphasis off the building of equally needed planes. As a way out, Liberal Geoffrey Mander suggested that Beaverbrook be given a new ministry with power over all production...
From another Navy man came the fightingest speech of all. Lieut. Commander Austin Hopkinson lit into Supply Minister Lord Beaverbrook, said he would organize plane production as a newspaper stunt. ("Straight from the shoulder," commented Publisher Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express...
...propaganda that the Ministry issues is directed by the Foreign Office. This leaves the Ministry of Information in the unhappy position of having no information to call its own. Sick of trying to serve their country in a vacuum, some officials of the Ministry have resigned. Last month Lord Beaverbrook, himself a publisher, took the Ministry briefly in hand but was lofted to a new job as Supply Minister before he had time to make permanent reforms...