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Post date: Feb 14, 2019 3:35:5 AM
Here is Aitken with another one of the olboyz ... Winston Churchill who fooled a lot of people for a long time but the jig would seem to be up.
Churchill is bad bad bad news ... and Aitken may be worse. No surprise when you look at what his protege is doing to the Mariimes and Maine etc now.
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Many observers could not understand Churchill’s friendship with a man Lloyd George had said no one in any party trusted. Another prime minister, Clement Attlee, thought Beaverbrook evil; the writer Evelyn Waugh described his “deep malevolence.” Clementine Churchill often objected to Beaverbrook’s political advice. In February 1942, as Churchill reconstructed his government, Clementine took the opportunity to warn him against keeping Beaverbrook, whom she thought of as a treacherous intriguer: “…try ridding yourself of this microbe which some people fear is in your blood.”
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1. Anonymous says:
25 Sep 2018 10:51:08 AM
Why was lord Beaverbrook called Lord been-a-crook
2. Commenter identity confirmed C. Peter Chen says:
26 Sep 2018 05:53:34 AM
To Anonymous of 25 Sep 2018: If I recall correctly, Lady Astor gave him that nickname. It was largely due to Beaverbrook's tendencies to always think in business - and profit - terms. That led to folks not necessarily always trusting him, as one could not determine whether a particular suggestion of his was motivated by the common end goal or by his personal profit.
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Sources:
Great Contemporaries: Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook – The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/great-contemporaries-max-aitken-lord-beaverbrook/
Beaverbrook | World War II Database
https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=413
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THE CHURCHILL PROJECT - HILLSDALE COLLEGE > ARTICLES > ARTICLES > EXPLORE > GREAT CONTEMPORARIES: MAX AITKEN, LORD BEAVERBROOK
Great Contemporaries: Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
By BRADLEY TOLPPANEN| June 17, 2016
Beaverbrook and Churchill, 1941
On 14 May 1940, four days after he had become prime minister and the Germans had launched their invasion of western Europe, Winston Churchill announced his cabinet appointments. One of the most important was his selection of Lord Beaverbrook to head the Ministry of Aircraft Production. The appointment was made despite the hostility, if not outright hatred, that Beaverbrook provoked in many quarters, not least from Churchill’s wife Clementine.
But Churchill had known Beaverbrook for three decades. He recognized that this newly created, all-vital ministry required a chief of Beaverbrook’s qualities. With Britain’s survival in the balance, Beaverbrook would have the energy, determination, and “dynamism” to break all the rules as he sought rapidly to increase fighter and bomber manufacture. The appointment was the culmination of a long, turbulent relationship between the two, which, over the past three decades, had seen ups and downs, disagreements and arguments, and even “social coolness.”
Early Encounters
William Maxwell Aitken, named to the peerage as Lord Beaverbrook (known by friends and enemies alike as “the Beaver”), enjoyed gambling, drinking and politics from the inside. He had a great facility with words, loved to create mischief, and almost always wore a grin. He was born in 1879 in Canada, the son of a Presbyterian minister. After a childhood in New Brunswick, he held a variety of jobs, including newspaper reporter and debt collector, before succeeding in insurance and other business ventures.
Early on, Beaverbrook demonstrated the ability to make money. With his “powers of flattery and persuasion, and also a certain lack of scruple,” he had by 1910 moved permanently to Britain, a wealthy “new world millionaire.” The move was made in the wake of his involvement in a controversial merger of Canada’s cement industry.
Elected to the House of Commons in 1910, Beaverbrook met Churchill in early 1911 after being introduced by F.E. Smith, later Lord Birkenhead. They did not become immediate friends and Churchill’s signature does not appear in the visitors book at Cherkley Court, Beaverbrook’s grand country house, until 1916. During the First World War, the Beaver held positions with the Canadian forces in Britain, wrote his first book, received a peerage, and invested in the Daily Express. No supporter of Prime Minister H.H. Asquith, he claimed to have played a “key” role in Asquith’s overthrow in December 1916. In February 1918, Beaverbrook became Minister of Information, responsible for the propaganda effort—a cabinet position under David Lloyd George. He was successful, but resigned after only eight months.
Between the Wars
After the 1918 armistice, Beaverbrook developed the failing Daily Express into the largest circulation newspaper in Britain, reaching a circulation of 2.7 million in 1937. The Beaver enjoyed using this “optimistic” newspaper, aimed at “Middle England,” to attack his enemies, support his friends, and crusade for his own causes. In the early Twenties the Daily Express bitterly opposed the Lloyd George coalition government, which Churchill served at senior levels. Beaverbrook said he had aided its downfall in 1922—which left Churchill for two years “without an office, without a seat, without a party, and without an appendix.”
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For a taste of what the warcriminal Churchill was all about check this item at the Henry Makow blog for starters:
Winston Churchill Was Bankers' Puppet - henrymakow.com
https://www.henrymakow.com/churchill_was_a_judas.html
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