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  Encyclopedia: Lord Northcliffe
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (July 15, 1865, Dublin - August 14, 1922, London) was an influential and successful newspaper owner.
He saved the Observer in 1905, the same year he was made Baron Northcliffe, and purchased The Times in 1908, turning it into a modern newspaper.
Northcliffe used his papers to influence the course of World War I, first calling attention to a shell shortage in the British army and later pressing for both a Ministry of Munitions and the creation of a war cabinet.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lord-Northcliffe   (489 words)

  
 Jewish Terror: The Story of Lord Northcliffe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Northcliffe, who lived from 1865 to 1922, stood up to the political establishment of his time, damning Lord Kitchener during World War I when he was considered a war hero -- and thereby engendering the hatred of millions and driving the circulation of his flagship paper down by some 80 per cent.
Northcliffe was a man who was a bit of a jingoistic nationalist -- he took regrettable anti-German and anti-Boer positions, for example -- and it is said that he would do almost anything to increase the circulation of the newspapers that he owned.
Northcliffe, the son of an English barrister, was born Alfred Harmsworth near Dublin on the 15th of July 1865.
www.nationalvanguard.org /story.php?id=1646   (2675 words)

  
 Jewish Terror: The Story of Lord Northcliffe
Northcliffe, who lived from 1865 to 1922, stood up to the political=20 establishment of his time, damning Lord Kitchener during World War I=20 when he was considered a war hero -- and thereby engendering the=20 hatred of millions and driving the circulation of his flagship paper=20 down by some 80 per cent.
Northcliffe was a man who was a bit of a jingoistic nationalist --=20 he took regrettable anti-German and anti-Boer positions, for example=20 -- and it is said that he would do almost anything to increase the=20 circulation of the newspapers that he owned.
Lord Rothermere wrote in the Daily Mail for the 10th of July, 1933: 'I urge all British young men and women to study closely the=20 progress of the Nazi regime in Germany.
www.talkaboutabook.com /group/alt.censorship/messages/219369.html   (2261 words)

  
 First World War.com - Who's Who - Lord Northcliffe
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, later Alfred Lord Northcliffe (1865-1922) was a British newspaper pioneer who revolutionised magazine and newspaper publishing in Britain in the early years of the twentieth century, and who wielded significant political power through the medium of his popular dailies.
Viewing Northcliffe as a loose cannon - and by no means returning Harmsworth's liking of him - Lloyd George attempted to bring the former into the cabinet by offering him control of the air ministry, a pet interest of Northcliffe's (who had long championed scientific and technical innovations).
Northcliffe however recognised that this would restrict his ability to criticise the government, and so declined the post.
www.firstworldwar.com /bio/northcliffe.htm   (806 words)

  
 George Geoffrey Dawson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He parlayed this post into a position as the Johannesburg correspondent of the Times, and attracted the attention of Lord Northcliffe, owner of the Times, who appointed him editor of the paper in 1912.
Dawson was unhappy, however, with the way that Northcliffe used the paper as an instrument to further his own personal political agenda and broke with him, stepping down as editor in 1919.
He also became a leader of a group of journalists that sought to influence national policy by private correspondence with leading statesmen and was close to both Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Geoffrey_Dawson   (321 words)

  
 Contemporary Review: The Rise And Fall Of Newspapers. - Review - book review
Lord Northcliffe, dominated according to his detractors by the pursuit of political power, is seen by the author of this closely observed study of his life and career, as one of the most remarkable figures in British press, political and imperial history.
Northcliffe's insistence that its stories should be 'constructed of many short paragraphs' explaining, simplifying and clarifying the news was the secret of its success in winning a mass audience.
Lord Salisbury, who dismissed it as a paper run by office boys for office boys, said Northcliffe had done more than any man of his generation to pervert and enfeeble the minds of the masses.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1619_277/ai_69279081   (877 words)

  
 Henry J. Reilly. America's Part. 1927. Chapter Three.
Lord Kitchener's fight was to convince his countrymen that, regardless of whatever they might have done in past wars, they must produce an army containing the same proportion of Britain's men as the armies of Germany and France contained of Germans and Frenchmen.
Lord Grey, British minister of foreign affairs before the war and during its early years, writes: "Conscription in the early days of the war was impossible; public opinion was not ready for it; it would have been resisted.
Lord Kitchener told him that by early in 1916 he would have to ask for legislation to produce enough men for the army to relieve the commanding officers in the field of the fear that their forces would fall off in strength.
www.lib.byu.edu /estu/wwi/comment/America/Reilly03.html   (5367 words)

  
 Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe
Northcliffe continued his attacks on Lord Kitchener and when he heard he had been killed he remarked: "The British Empire has just had the greatest stroke of luck in its history." After the death of Kitchener he concentrated on having Herbert Asquith removed.
During the election campaign Northcliffe called for Kaiser Wilhelm to be hanged and the imposition of severe financial penalties on Germany.
Lord Northcliffe wielded great power as the proprietor of the most widely-read daily paper and also as the owner of the most influential journal in the kingdom.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /BUharmsworth.htm   (4320 words)

  
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Lord Northcliffe was convinced that his life was in danger and several time said this; specifically, he said he had been poisoned.
Lord Curzon 's part was merely to moderate the terms of the "mandate" if he could, and he did achieve minor modifications, though these had little effect on events in the long run.
Lords Sydenham, Islington and Raglan led an attack on "the mandate" in the House of Lords and by a large majority carried their motion for the repeal of the Balfour Declaration.
knud.eriksen.adr.dk /Controversybook/TheEndofLordNorthcliffe.htm   (5216 words)

  
 Daily Mail
Lord Northcliffe was determined to make the Daily Mail the official newspaper of the British Army.
Lord Kitchener was a national hero and Harmsworth's attack on him upset a great number of readers.
Lord Northcliffe continued his attacks on Lord Kitchener and when he heard he had been killed he remarked: "The British Empire has just had the greatest stroke of luck in its history." After the death of Kitchener he concentrated on having Herbert Asquith removed.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jmail.htm   (3089 words)

  
 The Project Gutenberg eBook of THE MIRRORS OF DOWNING STREET, by Harold Begbie.
Lord Kitchener was opposed to the idea, which seemed to him irregular, unnecessary, and expensive, involving a waste of transport, rations, and clerks' labour.
Lord Robert Cecil need not adopt the tricks of a mountebank to achieve leadership of the British nation, but he must contract so entire a faith in the sacred character of his mission that all the inhibiting diffidencies of his modest nature will henceforth seem to him like the whisperings of temptation.
Lord Northcliffe, with all his faults, is a man to whom statesmen may speak their minds without loss of influence, but there are other newspaper proprietors, financiers of commercialized journalism, with whom a man of Mr.
www.gutenberg.org /files/15306/15306-h/15306-h.htm   (17872 words)

  
 The Colonel House Report (1919)
It discloses that it was probably written by Lord Northcliffe, who was at that time the head of the British Propaganda Department in enemy countries.
Lord Northcliffe was the publisher of the Daily Mail and other papers.
Elihu Root lord chief justice of the colony, and to nominate Messrs.
www.biblebelievers.org.au /house.htm   (4172 words)

  
 CRITIQUE :: War, Propoganda, and the Fiction of William Le Queux
If this were not enough, Lord Roberts was also known affectionately as “Bobs” and referred to as “Kipling’s General,” as he was the personification of what Kipling thought of as best of the British Army in India.
Lord Roberts then placed himself in the mind of a German general and planned a march on London that would ensure its capture while encountering the least resistance.
Included were First Lord of the Admiralty, the Home Secretary, the permanent undersecretaries of the Treasury and the Foreign Office, the Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, the Director of Military Operations, and the Director of Naval Intelligence.
www.etext.org /Zines/Critique/article/lequeux.html   (2927 words)

  
 Louis Bleriot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
An aviation enthusiast who had traveled to France to see Wright fly, Lord Northcliffe, proprietor of the widely read newspaper the Daily Mail and one of the most powerful men in England, offered a prize of 1,000 pounds ($5,000) for the first flight across the English Channel.
Northcliffe tried to interest Wright in the exploit, privately guaranteeing him a $7,500 bonus on top of the public prize and half the net receipts from the exhibition of the Flyer in London.
Wright was briefly tempted, but he demurred because of Orville's fear that the Flyer's engine was not reliable enough to make the Channel crossing and his own belief that "exceptional feats" were ill suited to the image of inventor that he was determined to cultivate for himself and his brother.
www.bleriot.org /docs/ChannelCrossing.htm   (1557 words)

  
 Book Reports- May/June 2000
Northcliffe is a kind of parallel to his American contemporary William Randolph Hearst, and that comparison was sometimes made.
Northcliffe is credited or blamed for bringing down one prime minister, Asquith, and ushering in the next, Lloyd George.
Unlike Hearst, Northcliffe did not live on and on; he died unexpectedly in 1922, at the age of fifty-seven.
archives.cjr.org /year/00/2/boylan.asp   (793 words)

  
 Daily Mail Group: Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The group traces its origins to the newspaper and magazine built at the turn of last century by Lord Northcliffe, an innovator whose grasp of the popular press was exceeed only by an increasing megalomania.
Lord Northcliffe (1865-1922) - bad, mad and dangerous to know - founded the print dynasty in 1888 as a free-lance contributor to popular periodicals.
Northcliffe bought the London Evening News in 1894, going on to found the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror before seizing the Times in 1908 (it was sold to John Jacob Astor after his death before being acquired by Roy Thomson and Rupert Murdoch).
www.ketupa.net /dmg.htm   (1177 words)

  
 The Churchill Papers: A catalogue
Letter from Lord Hugh Cecil [later Lord Quickswood] (Hatfield House, Hatfield, Hertfordshire) to WSC referring to the 8th Duke of Devonshire's speech at Rawtenstall [Lancashire] and noting that Sir Alfred Harmsworth [later Lord Northcliffe] is said to be less Chamberlainite than C Arthur Pearson.
Letter from Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] (The Wharf, Abingdon, [Oxfordshire]) to WSC rejecting the assertions of Lord Northcliffe [earlier Sir Alfred Harmsworth] that J A Spender is in danger of being turned out of the Westminster Gazette and that Liberal journalists should be given more honours.
Letter from Lord Wimborne [2nd baron, later 1st viscount] [earlier Ivor Guest and Lord Ashby St Ledgers] (Wimborne House, Arlington Street, [London]) to WSC on: the stalemate in the war; the task of reconstruction after it is over; the increasing prominence of women and the imminent disappearance of the press.
www-archives.chu.cam.ac.uk /perl/search?add_text=UNESCO::Press   (4203 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Newspapers
The paper became the first in the United Kingdom to employ foreign correspondents, when it engaged H. Crabb Robinson to cover the Peninsular War.
The abolition of the government tax on newspapers in 1855 brought about a general reduction in their prices and an increase in their circulation.
The first and greatest of these was Alfred Harmsworth, later Lord Northcliffe, who at one time controlled the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror, The Times, and The Observer.
uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564853/Newspapers.html   (2222 words)

  
 CJR - Books - Lord Beaverbrook: A Life, by Anne Chisholm and Michael Davie
Between the wars he determined to succeed Lord Northcliffe, who had been, as he said, "infinitely the greatest figure in the Fleet Street of 1920." By 1939 his Daily Express, with a circulation of 2.3 million, had trounced Northcliffe's old flagship, the Daily Mail.
Yet the Express preached "freedom and equality of opportunity for all men." It espoused a swashbuckling populism and opposed "privilege in any class of the community." As a result, it appealed equally to all ages and classes.
His sin was to dazzle his readers with spangles and throw stardust in their eyes.
archives.cjr.org /year/93/3/books-cheerleader.asp   (1359 words)

  
 An unusaual souvenir of Lord Northcliffe's has been uncovered at a car boot sale. www.HoldTheFrontPage.co.uk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
An unusual souvenir of Lord Northcliffe's 50th birthday party at the turn of the century has been uncovered at a car boot sale.
One of the documents was a programme issued in honour of Daily Mail founder Lord Northcliffe's 50th birthday party at The Ritz.
The paper reported how all the items were printed on behalf of Amalgamated Press, owned by Lord Northcliffe, which published magazines from 1901 to 1922.
www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk /news/2000/10oct/001010lord.shtml   (201 words)

  
 BBC News | UK | Lord Rothermere
Lord Rothermere started in the newspaper trade at the very bottom spending three years working at a Canadian paper mill learning about newsprint.
Lord Rothermere shut down the Sketch and appointed its editor, the late Sir David English, as editor of the newly revamped Daily Mail.
Lord Rothermere is succeeded by his son Jonathan, 30, who currently managing director of the Evening Standard.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/uk/163089.stm   (616 words)

  
 Northcliffe, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Other publications were gradually acquired that formed the basis for what became the world’s largest periodical combine, the Amalgamated Press.
He gained control of the dying Times in 1908, putting it back on its feet with changes in makeup and editorial policy; The Times was sold to John Jacob Astor (1886–1971) after Northcliffe’s death.
His newspaper campaigns during World War I, particularly those concerning faulty munitions, national conscription, and food rationing, were determining factors in England’s conduct of the war, and his support of Lloyd George in 1916 was instrumental in bringing the downfall of the Asquith government.
www.bartleby.com /65/no/Northcli.html   (296 words)

  
 The Protocols of Zion and the attempt to make the League of Nations a World Government
On June 18, 19l2 Lord Northcliffe returned to London and was in fact removed from all control of, and even communication with his undertakings (especially The Times; his telephone was cut).
Lord Northcliffe therefore was out of circulation, and of the control of his newspapers, during the decisive period preceding the ratification of "the mandate" by the League of Nations, which clinched the Palestinean transaction
Northcliffe and Lloyd George, parties to one of the most significant of all wartime alliances which had become one of the bitterest peacetime antagonisms, never met after the Armistice.
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 First World War.com - Primary Documents - Lord Northcliffe on the Battle of Verdun, 4 March 1916
Primary Documents: Lord Northcliffe on the Battle of Verdun, 4 March 1916
Reproduced below is British newspaper baron Lord Northcliffe's despatch during the early days of the German offensive launched against French-held Verdun on 21 February 1916.
Often described as the greatest battle of the war, casualties on both sides were immense.
www.firstworldwar.com /source/verdun_northcliffe.htm   (1122 words)

  
 Jewish Terror: The Story of Northcliffe, ADV of Jan. 10, 2004, K.A.Strom - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Kevin Alfred Strom discusses the hidden story of the confinement and death of Lord Northcliffe under extraordinarily suspect circumstances at the very moment that Lord Northcliffe posed a critical threat to Zionist schemes.
With his brother Harold (later Lord Rothermere) he started the magazine Answers to Correspondents in 1888, which rapidly became a success with its question-and-answer format, selling over a million copies a week.
One failure of Northcliffe was his launching of the first daily newspaper for women, the Daily Mirror, which did eventually become a success when he made it into a picture newspaper for both sexes.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=109613   (3111 words)

  
 CHARLES HAZELWOOD SHANNON - LoveToKnow Article on CHARLES HAZELWOOD SHANNON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
His " Study in Grey" is at the Munich Gallery, a " Portrait of Mr Staats Forbes " at Bremen, and a " Souvenir of Van Dyck " at Melbourne.
One of his most remarkable pictures is " The Toilet of Venus " in the collection of Lord Northcliffe.
Complete sets of his lithographs and etchings have been acquired by the British Museum and the Berlin and Dresden print rooms.
31.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SH/SHANNON_CHARLES_HAZELWOOD.htm   (234 words)

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