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A Spectator's Notebook
I SUSPECT THAT the difference between my point of view on the Beaverbrook influence and Lord Boothby's, expressed in ( our correspondence columns, is one of terminology. To 'challenge' the Establishment, or anything else, suggests to me a frontal attack; but that was not how Lord Beaverbrook brought about the downfall either of Asquith or of Lloyd George. To manipulate the Establishment by playing off some of its members against others is surely a very different thing from challenging it, and bowling it over. As for the Radcliffe Report, I would have thought that Lord Boothby himself had more to do with it than Lord Beaverbrook. But in any case, I was not suggesting that Lord Beaverbrook truckled to the Establishment : to his credit, that is something he has not done. My point was that his fight against it has been remarkably unsuccess- ful: it has made him rich but left him powerless.
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