Was Lord Beaverbrook Overlooked?
LONpON, Oct. 3.—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 says this is the first time that 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,” says 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 an 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 the ‘whip’ in the House iof Lords may have been just a mistake, but Lord Beaverbrook is a bad person to make a mistake with.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, 5 October 1949, Page 5
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