| In one delightful sequence, Bertie urges Churchill to form a new government, but asks that he leave newspaper baron Lord Beaverbrook out of it. |
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| The independent was supported by Lord Rothermere, Lord Beaverbrook and their respective newspapers. |
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| Later that night Churchill saw the draft of the King's proposed wireless broadcast and spoke with Beaverbrook and the King's solicitor about it. |
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| It was the brainchild of future Chairman Jack McGinn who at the time was working in the circulation department of Beaverbrook Newspapers. |
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| He immediately put his friend and confidant, industrialist and newspaper baron Lord Beaverbrook, in charge of aircraft production. |
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| Beaverbrook and Crewe state he met Chamberlain, Curzon and Cecil. |
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| However, the decision was generally popular and seen as 'sound economics' although it was opposed by Lord Beaverbrook and the Federation of British Industries. |
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