1 JULY 1955, Page 19

Beaverbrook Intelligence

`SOCIALIST MPs gave Mr. Aneurin Bevan one of the biggest slaps of his career last night.'—Daily Express, June 24.

`IT IS BEING SAID that the Socialist Left wing has been knocked on the head in the Shadow Cabinet elections. What nonsense!'—Sunday Express, June 26.

`DESPITE THE all-out Bevanite bid to win control of the party's Shadow Cabinet, the results declared last night are a triumph for the Right-wingers.'—Daily Express, June 24.

`WITH THE WHOLE strength of his enemies arrayed against him, he [Mr. Bevan] polls well.'—Sunday Express, June 26.

`IT IS EVEN being said that he [Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd] might replace Lord Woolton as Tory Party Chairman. That is an astounding suggestion. Little reason to think that Mr. Lloyd would deliver the votes more successfully than he has delivered the coal.'--Sunday Express, June 26.

`AND THERE ARE reports that Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, Minister of Fuel and Power, will succeed him [Lord Woolton]. Mr. Lloyd would be an admirable choice. He is a young man, fifty-three, with a proven capacity for leadership:— Evening Standard, June 27.