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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Typed letter signed to Max [Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook], Treasury Chambers, Whitehall, 11 May 1926, two pages, 4to.
PAPER SHORTAGES DURING THE GENERAL STRIKE: 'The rapidly increasing circulation of "The British Gazette" will make the paper shortage very acute. We are expecting to publish over three millions tonight, and we shall probably have to requisition every scrap of news-print which is available and suitable'; he hopes that Beaverbrook and fellow newspaper baron Lord Rothermere will be able to hold off re-starting their own presses, especially as returning his skilled workers to Rothermere 'would gravely cripple the Government organ during the days when its influence may be indispensable to the successful termination of the crisis'; he concludes by proposing a more general council with other newspaper proprietors.
Churchill had returned to office (and to the Conservative Party) in 1924 as chancellor of the exchequer under Stanley Baldwin. The next years were wracked by industrial conflicts (not helped by Churchill's ill-judged return to the gold standard at pre-war parity), culminating in the ten-day General Strike.
Writings of Sir Winston Churchill © Estate of Winston S. Churchill
PAPER SHORTAGES DURING THE GENERAL STRIKE: 'The rapidly increasing circulation of "The British Gazette" will make the paper shortage very acute. We are expecting to publish over three millions tonight, and we shall probably have to requisition every scrap of news-print which is available and suitable'; he hopes that Beaverbrook and fellow newspaper baron Lord Rothermere will be able to hold off re-starting their own presses, especially as returning his skilled workers to Rothermere 'would gravely cripple the Government organ during the days when its influence may be indispensable to the successful termination of the crisis'; he concludes by proposing a more general council with other newspaper proprietors.
Churchill had returned to office (and to the Conservative Party) in 1924 as chancellor of the exchequer under Stanley Baldwin. The next years were wracked by industrial conflicts (not helped by Churchill's ill-judged return to the gold standard at pre-war parity), culminating in the ten-day General Strike.
Writings of Sir Winston Churchill © Estate of Winston S. Churchill
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