BEAVERBROOK WAS OVERLOOKED IN LORDS DEBATE
[N.Z.P.A. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT] LONDON, October 3 (Rec. 9 a.m.). Lord Beaverbrook did not receive the Conservative whip for. the debate on devaluation in the House of Lords last week. The Manchester Guardian’s political correspondent states that this is the first time Lord Beaverbrook has been so overlooked, and that he does not suppose for one moment that it. was due to a clerical error. “The assumption is,” states the Guardian’s correspondent, “that the Conservative Central Office would
prefer to go forward to the next election unencumbered by' Lord Beaverbrook’s enigmatic support. Yet Lord Beaverbrook , was given high office by Mr Churchill during the war, and there is,, .no evidence • that Mr Churchill has fallen out with his old colleague. Mr Churchill is famous for his loyalties, and it is inconceivable that he would cease to relish Lord Beaverbrook’s peculiar gifts merely because the. Conservative Central Office finds them embarrassing. Of course, the omission of a whip in the House of Lords, may have been just a mistake, but Lord Beaverbrook is a bad person to' make a mistake’with. . •
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 October 1949, Page 5
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