On Second Thought

For eight weeks, Lord Beaverbrook's London Sunday Express had given four columns an issue to a serialized digest of a new book called Montgomery, "the authentic life story" written by its topflight war correspondent, tiny, toothy Alan Moorehead.

Last week the Express abruptly gave the back of its hand to Alan Moorehead, who had just quit the Express to write more books. The Express warned its readers that perhaps the biography was not so authentic after all (though most of Fleet Street guessed that Monty had read and approved it). In an acid review in the Express, Brigadier A. H. Head (retired), a Conservative M.P., snorted that some passages dealing with top-level goings-on "are filled with inaccuracies and even distortions. [They] have that gossipy, irresponsible touch associated more with the works of [Harry] Butcher and [Ralph] Ingersoll."

An angry reader had called this radical change of tune. The reader was outraged by Moorehead's statement that Prime Minister Churchill had tried to horn in on Monty's invasion plans just before DDay, and had been squelched. The complainant was powerful enough to get the Express to back down. His name: Winston Churchill.

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