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...Wales 35 years ago and calls himself Sudeten Welsh. Nine years ago, after building himself into a Laborite problem child in the House of Commons, he lost his seat in a Tory landslide, took a crack at foreign corresponding, wound up on the London Evening Standard of Lord Beaverbrook, whom he looks on as "a promising lad from the Dominions." This month the passion for work which keeps Editor Owen at his desk some 19 hours a day exploded in a series of blistering editorials, blasting the lethargy of Britain's war effort. Excerpts...
Christened. Winston Churchill II, blue-eyed, seven-week-old son of freshman M. P. Randolph Churchill. Godfather: Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook. Prime Minister Churchill left his work long enough to be present. Scene of the christening was censored. Best guess: the House of Commons crypt...
...tons. Since the beginning of July, shipping losses have been at the rate of 4,000,000 tons a year. Against this the Admiralty's shipbuilding program aimed at only 1,250,000 tons in the first war year, and even this figure was not reached. Lord Beaverbrook had upped aircraft production at shipbuilding's expense, said Shinwell; the Government had not used its emergency powers to transfer labor to the most useful work; emergencies were being met by appeals, not compulsion; "we can't run the war by a succession of Flag Days...
...Lord Rothermere retired as chairman of Associated Newspapers, Ltd., turned the management of his properties over to young Esmond. Three years ago he gave up business completely. Last spring the man who took Northcliffe's place as Britain's Press Peer No. 1-gnomelike little Baron Beaverbrook, publisher of the mammoth London Daily Express, Minister of Aircraft Production-took Rothermere out of retirement, sent him to Canada and the U. S. on a special war mission. Harold Harmsworth was still rich, but old and tired. Month ago he went to Bermuda for a rest. His granddaughter was with...
...showing from your window upstairs." Young lady: "That's not a Chink, it's the Japanese Ambassador.") Of Britain's present Cabinet he wrote in last week's letter: "We [the Conservatives] are literally a party with only two men left. .' . . Churchill is one, Beaverbrook the other. . . . Churchill is regarded as the very spirit of Britain, while Beaverbrook is spoken of with awe as something between a magician and an avalanche. . . . But there is another man, neither Liberal nor Tory, who . . . would demand the right to lead the nation now if Churchill were liquidated...