They adopted the pseudonym ‘Cato’ as their proprietor, Lord Beaverbrook, was not only a newly-appointed member of the Cabinet, but guarded the labours of his employees with great jealousy. Shortly before, Michael Foot, the young assistant editor of the Evening Standard, his editor Frank Owen, a former Liberal MP, and Tory columnist Peter Howard had met on the roof of the Daily Express building where they all worked. This book, Tribune said, “flays the whole Chamberlain Gang in a polemical style reminiscent of a more outspoken pamphleteering age.” Flesh against steel.”Įighty years ago this month, Tribune announced the publication of a “half-crown book issued by Victor Gollancz which is political dynamite.” In spite of WH Smith and other leading booksellers and distributors refusing to handle it, Guilty Men sold 200,000 copies in the space of a few weeks – mainly through newsstands and street barrows.
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