Max Aitken Quotes
Our cock won’t fight.
1st Baron Beaverbrook
Maxwell Aitkin Beaverbrook, 1879-1964, British Minister of Information & Newspaper Publisher, Statement to Winston Churchill during Edward VIII’s abdication crisis, Quoted in Donaldson, Edward VIII, 1974
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William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, PC, ONB, generally known as Lord Beaverbrook, was a Canadian-British newspaper publisher and backstage politician who was an influential figure in British media and politics of the first half of the 20th century. His base of power was the largest circulation newspaper in the world, the Daily Express, which appealed to the conservative working class with intensely patriotic news and editorials. During the Second World War, he played a major role in mobilising industrial resources as Winston Churchill's Minister of Aircraft Production.