Abstract
To be an editor of a Fleet Street newspaper in the days immediately after Munich was, indeed, a heady experience: J. L. Garvin, after thirty years, still laboured at the Observer, Arthur Christiansen, of the Daily Express exhibited nightly his typographic pyrotechnics, while remembering ‘the little man in the backstreets of Derby’;1 and Francis Williams, on the Daily Herald, was steadfastly proclaiming the policies of the Labour Party. But the newest and brightest of the editors was Frank Owen, who had first attracted Beaverbrook’s attention as the youngest Liberal MP in the 1929–31 Parliament.2 And after losing his Herefordshire seat, Owen became Beaverbrook’s ghost writer for most articles on economic policy.
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References
Arthur Christiansen, Headlines All My Life p. 163.
Gron Williams, Firebrand: The Frank Owen Story pp. 21ff.
Michael Foot, Debts of Honour p. 86.
W. H. Auden, quoted in ibid., p. 165.
Chips Channon, Diaries of Chips Channon p. 230.
Francis Williams, Nothing So Strange p. 147.
E. J. Robertson papers, Daily Express archives.
Evening Standard Board Minutes, 4 May 1939.
A. J. P. Taylor, Beaverbrook p. 394.
Sir Thomas Blackburn papers, Daily Express archives.
E. J. Robertson papers, Daily Express archives.
Michael Foot, op. cit., p. 76 and conversations with author.
Ibid., p. 78.
Michael Foot, conversations with author.
Michael Foot, op. cit., p. 77.
E. J. Robertson Papers, Daily Express archives.
John Colville, The Fringes of Power p. 19.
George Malcolm Thomson, Viscount Castlerosse p. 154; and conversation with author.
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Griffiths, D. (1996). On the Brink. In: Plant Here The Standard. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12461-9_19
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