“MAN AFIRE”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1941, Page 5

“MAN AFIRE”

REMARKABLE TRIBUTE TO BEAVERBROOK PAID by THE “MANCHESTER GUARDIAN.” devotion to the cause OF RUSSIA. (British Official WirelessJ RUGBY, November 10. The “Manchester Guardian” pays a remarkable tribute to the dash of Lord Beaverbrook—the more remarkable m S ways because the “Guardian’’ is the antithesis in policy to that pro rounded by Lord Beaverbrooks organ the “Daily Express.” The “Guardian “There could have been no resisting Lord Beaverbrook in Manchester on Saturday Here was a man close to Mr Churchill in the War Cabinet who was afire with aiding Russia and a man whose energy matched his passion. Not one of the many workers oi the north-west who heard him coul 1 have gone away with any other thought than that the Minister of Supply is devoted to serving the cause oi our great ally. , . . “Lord Beaverbrook asked for a doubled munitions output in November and he will have his answer. Some people have become a little alarmed at the outspoken wish of some work people to labour for Russia, because they think it shows that they were not working their hardest when Britain was alone. “But has it not always been a British habit, and one not unpleasant, to feel happier in the though that we are fighting or working for others than only for ourselves? Belgium moved us in this way the last time. Lord Beaverbrook has the wisdom to understand and. satisfy those in whose hearts Russia holds such a place today.”