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  Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rothermere strongly supported revision of the Treaty of Trianon in favour of Hungary, to the extent that he was offered the Hungarian Crown in 1927.
The Rothermere papers for a time in 1934 championed the British Union of Fascists (B.U.F), and were again the only major papers that did so.
The MI5 papers also show that Rothermere paid a retainer of £5,000 per year to Stephanie Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingfurst, a glamorous Austrian princess and German spy, intending that she should bring him closer to Hitler's inner circle.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harold_Sidney_Harmsworth,_1st_Viscount_Rothermere   (459 words)

  
 BBC News | UK | Lord Rothermere
The son of the 2nd Viscount Rothermere, Vere Harold Esmond Harmsworth, was born on August 27 1925.
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/hi/uk/163089.stm   (605 words)

  
 Daily Mail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Daily Mail, devised by Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe) and his brother Harold (later Lord Rothermere), was first published on 3 May 1896 and was an immediate runaway success.
In the early 1930s Rothermere and the Mail were sympathetic to some degree with Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists.
Rothermere wrote an article, Hurrah for the Blackshirts, in January 1934, in which he praised Mosley for his "sound, commonsense, Conservative doctrine", though after the violence of the 1934 Olympia meeting involving the BUF the Mail withdrew its support for Mosley.
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 Harold Harmsworth, Lord Rothermere
Rothermere loyally gave support to the British government in the war and in 1917 David Lloyd George appointed Rothermere as his Air Minister.
Rothermere personal wealth was now £25 million and he was estimated to be the third richest man in Britain.
Rothermere became increasingly nationalistic in his political views and in 1929 joined with Lord Beaverbrook to form the United Empire Party.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /BUrothermere.htm   (1703 words)

  
 Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His sensational reporting prior to World War I may have been a result of bad feelings for Lord Kitchener, the Secretary of War, after one of Northcliffe's nephews was killed in the war.
In his final years, he was affected by megalomania that damaged his judgment and led to a nervous breakdown.
Lord Northcliffe died in 1922, aged 57, without issue, his viscountcy and barony both dying with him.
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 BBC News | UK | Lord Rothermere dies
Lord Rothermere was the scion of a newspaper dynasty founded by the inventor of popular journalism in UK, his great uncle, the first Lord Northcliffe.
It was Lord Rothermere who made Fleet Street history by deciding to relaunch the Daily Mail as a tabloid after the old broadsheet had been on the verge of extinction.
Lord Hollick, group chief executive of United News and Media Plc, publishers of The Express, The Express on Sunday and The Star, paid tribute: "Lord Rothermere was the quintessential proprietor, passionate for his papers, robust in his views and commercially courageous.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/163001.stm   (630 words)

  
 Telegraph | News
The first Lord Rothermere – the great-grandfather of the current owner of the newspaper – made the remarks in a letter intercepted by the security service during surveillance of a suspected German agent.
Rothermere's apparent support for the Nazi cause as late as 1939 came to light during an investigation into the activities of Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe.
Rothermere, meanwhile, was paying the princess £5,000 a year – £200,000 today – to act as his emissary in Europe.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/01/nna101.xml   (683 words)

  
 The Daily Mirror - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Daily Mirror was launched on November 2, 1903 by Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe) as a newspaper for women, run by women.
Rothermere used the Mirror for his own political purposes just as he used the Mail.
With Cecil King (Rothermere's nephew) in charge of the paper's business side and Guy Bartholomew in charge of the editorial side, the Mirror in the late 1930s transformed itself from a gently declining, respectable, right-wing, middle-class newspaper into a sensationalist left-wing paper for the working class that was a runaway business success.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Daily_Mirror   (1226 words)

  
 UO Stratics - BNN Archives - Rothermere's Travels - Europa
Her captain, Lord Rothermere, stared defiantly into the distance, scowering the dark and mountainous seas for signs of land.
Suddenly the monotonous grey of the horizon was broken by a dark and mysterious shape, Rothermere quickly unfastened his belt, and produced a small and beautifully crafted spyglass.
Rothermere stumbled towards him, tucking his spyglass carefully away as he lunged through the water that had flooded the Phoenix’s decks.
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Lord Milner and Foreign Minister Balfour drafted the Balfour Declaration -- and the puppeteers pulled the strings on crackpot Wilson and America went to war to "make the world safe for democracy' and to "end war," proving that many Americans had had their brains turned to mush long before the advent of television.
Rothermere eventually came to the conclusion that Jewish power needed to be defeated for the good of Europe, and that Britain's best interest lay in support of the other European nations which had begun the fight.
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 progress of the Nazi regime in Germany.
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 Telegraph | Money | Rothermere offers £120m for Express
Lord Rothermere is now in pole position for the Express, as he has trumped a rival offer from four Indian brothers, the Hindujas, who have indicated that they would be prepared to pay around £100m.
The Hindujas were on the verge of topping Lord Rothermere's offer but their plans were scuppered by the weather.
Lord Rothermere, 32, took over as chairman of Daily Mail and General Trust two years ago following the death of his father, and winning the Express would be a triumph for him.
www.telegraph.co.uk /money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2000/10/31/cnexp31.xml   (584 words)

  
 Lord Rothermere has been confirmed: Regional Journalism in the UK on the Internet. www.HoldTheFrontPage.co.uk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lord Rothermere has been confirmed: Regional Journalism in the UK on the Internet.
Lord Rothermere has been confirmed as one of the key speakers at the 57th World Newspaper Congress, 11th World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo 2004 in May.
Lord Rothermere will be joined by other speakers including Karen House, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, and Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the event, which runs from May 30 to June 2 in Istanbul.
www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk /news/2004/01jan/040129roth.shtml   (353 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Books | LRB essay | Paper fortunes
King, a nephew of Alfred Harmsworth (Lord Northcliffe), was attracted by the wealth and influence that his uncle derived from owning the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror, the Times and a clutch of periodicals.
He complained with special vehemence when his uncle Harold, the first Lord Rothermere (Lord Northcliffe had died in 1922, the year King graduated), declined to give him the important job in newspapers that he felt was his due.
When it was all over, Lord Beaverbrook tried to attract Cudlipp to the Daily Express and Rothermere offered him the editorship of the Daily Mail, but he returned to King and the Pictorial as much for political reasons as out of loyalty.
books.guardian.co.uk /lrb/articles/0,6109,1107636,00.html   (3413 words)

  
 BUCHAREST DAILY NEWS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The first Lord Rothermere, the great-grandfather of the current owner of the Daily Mail, wrote to Hitler, congratulating him for the annexation of Czechoslovakia and urging him to invade Romania as soon as possible, according to the electronic edition of the Daily Telegraph.
Rothermere corresponded with Hitler through Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe, the former wife of a nobleman from the Austro-Hungarian aristocracy and one of the few women who had an influence over the German leader.
The princess sued Rothermere as the latter ceased to pay her for her services but the trial was rejected by the court shortly after Great Britain declared war to Germany.
www.daily-news.ro /article_detail.php?idarticle=7054   (173 words)

  
 Celebrate Memorial: History: Biography of Viscount Rothermere of Hemsted   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Viscount Rothermere was born Esmond Cecil Harmsworth in 1898.
During his term as Chancellor, Viscount Rothermere gave the University the sum of $500,000 to build Rothermere House, the first residence for students on the campus.
He has established the Rothermere Fellowships to aid students who have graduated from Memorial pursue their studies at the University of their choice in the United Kingdom.
www.mun.ca /mundays/bios/VRothermere.html   (582 words)

  
 Rothermere sits with Blair peers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lord Rothermere, 71, chairman of Associated Newspapers, stressed that his three titles could decide their own editorial lines.
Lord McIntosh of Haringey, deputy chief whip in the Lords, said he was "absolutely astonished".
Vyvyan Harmsworth, a director of Associated and a cousin of Lord Rothermere, said the chairman's endorsement of Labour had been considered carefully and would not be withdrawn suddenly.
telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/05/23/nrot23.html   (335 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Columnists | Peter Preston: It isn't very often that the Daily Mail group looks indecisive
And while Lord Rothermere has the City and a drooping share price to worry about, the Scott Trust, owner of GMG, has a simpler inheritance: the preservation in perpetuity of the Guardian.
Lord Rothermere is part of the longest-surviving Fleet Street dynasty.
Lord Rothermere is there in the frame to be judged when the next volume of his family history is written.
www.guardian.co.uk /Columnists/Column/0,,1712929,00.html   (1027 words)

  
 Neville Chamberlain Encyclopedia Articles @ NaturalResearch.com (Natural Research)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Chamberlain was the eldest son of the second marriage of Joseph Chamberlain, Lord Mayor of Birmingham, and a half-brother to Austen, later Sir Austen.
The press baron Lord Beaverbrook launched a campaign for "Empire Free Trade", meaning the removal of tariffs within the British Empire and the erection of external tariffs; he was supported in his opposition to Baldwin by Lord Rothermere, who also opposed Baldwin's support for Indian independence.
Some have also argued that Chamberlain's policy was entirely in keeping with the Conservative tradition started by Lord Derby between 1846 and 1868 and followed in the Splendid Isolation under Lord Salisbury in the 1880s and 1890s.
www.naturalresearch.com /encyclopedia/Neville_Chamberlain   (5892 words)

  
 Observer | Now, it's personal
Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail and Richard Desmond's Daily Express are locked in mutual savaging as though their business lives depended on it: and perhaps Desmond's does.
That was one reason, last year, why the Mail emerged as a surprise bidder when Lord Hollick at United abruptly decided to jettison the Expresses and the Star: revenge and final family victory.
The first Lord Rothermere, he wrote after Harold's death, 'was great in vision, courage and loyalty'.
observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4141680-102271,00.html   (1382 words)

  
 Jewish Terror: The Story of Lord Northcliffe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lord Northcliffe (pictured) was a victim of the Zionist establishment whose story deserves to be told, though it was covered up for decades.
According to a defector from the Jewish power structure of the time, Benjamin Freedman, Britain was on the verge of losing that war in 1917, when the Zionist Jews made a proposal to the British government.
On August 14th, 1922 Lord Northcliffe died, supposedly the cause of death being "ulcerative endocarditis." None of the story of his alleged insanity or confinement was known to the public at the time.
www.nationalvanguard.org /story.php?id=1646   (2677 words)

  
 national journal: Hitler was superhuman
Intercepted messages from Lord Rothermere to Berlin are among the first papers to be released from Foreign Office intelligence files.
Yet in the summer of 1939, Rothermere was still appealing to Hitler not to provoke a war, saying that Britain and Nazi Germany must remain at peace.
Rothermere appealed to the Nazi leadership to convene a conference to sort out what he called the "misunderstanding" - concerns about Germany's intentions, particularly with regard to Poland and, as he called it, "the Danzig problem".
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 Prague - Discussion Forums - Rothermere urged Hitler to invade Romania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lord Rothermere even hired a glamorous German spy to introduce him to leading Nazi figures in the run-up to the Second World War.
Mr Butler added: "Some years ago Lord Rothermere, in order to further his international political aims, engaged the Princess Hohenlohe's services [for] and#163;5,000 per annum and continued to pay this sum for a number of years...
Rothermere considered her court action to be "flmail" and refused to pay any settlement.
prague.tv /forum/3427   (1254 words)

  
 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In the 1930s Rothermere and the Mail were supporters of Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists.
Rothermere had several meetings with Adolf Hitler, and addressed him as "My Dear Führer" in letters and telegrams.
He argued that the Nazi leader wanted peace, and in 1934 campaigned for the African land confiscated in the Versailles Treaty to be returned to Germany.
www.irelandinformationguide.com /Daily_Mail   (881 words)

  
 Politics | Peerage and a plea for royal treatment
When he, the new Viscount Rothermere, and their respective spouses, went to dinner with the Blairs at Downing Street in autumn 2000, it did not seem likely to be a particularly warm encounter.
Dacre and Viscount Rothermere took Cherie's action to be a deliberate act of political hostility - whose meaning was to show the "forces of conservatism" that liberal values now held sway.
Lord Falconer knew that in judicial circles Hutton had a reputation for independence but also a deep respect for the security services.
politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5025004-110827,00.html   (2327 words)

  
 What Rothermere said before the sell-off | Press Gazette   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lord Rothermere sent the letter to Evening Post NUJ chapel FoC Derek Brooks, who had written to him protesting about the company's Aim Higher cost-cutting plan, which journalists have dubbed "Aim, Fire!"
Rothermere wrote: "I am a fervent believer in good journalism throughout my titles and I totally agree with you on the merits of investing in journalists.
He cited the DMGT annual report, which showed that Northcliffe achieved operating profits of £102m in 2005, advertising grew by 2 per cent and that "on the back of a buoyant local economy Bristol was up by 10 per cent driven by cost savings".
www.pressgazette.co.uk /?t=article&l=what_rothermere_said_before_the_selloff   (477 words)

  
 Welcome to Rothermere House
Rothermere house is one of ten houses in Paton College.
Blackall and Squires are all-female houses and Doyle is an all male house.
Lord Rothermere was the first Chancellor of Memorial University and the benefactor who provided the funds to construct Rothermere House, Memorial’s first residence.
www.munhousing.ca /rothermere   (809 words)

  
 Celebrate Memorial: History: The 50's: 1952 Installation: Chairman's Address   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
To the vision and the pioneering spirit of the late Lord Northcliffe and the late Lord Rothermere it owes its origin here and some fifteen years later a large industry was established on our West Coast.
Our Chancellor who is to be installed today is the son of Lord Rothermere and the nephew of Lord Northcliffe who founded the great industry at Grand Falls and directed its development and expansion through Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company, Limited.
Lord Rothermere has continued the progressive policy of his father and his uncle in the operations of Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company, Ltd. which has within the past few years modern-ized its plant and increased its productive capacity with consequent benefits extending over a large area of this Province.
www.mun.ca /mundays/50s/installation_booklet_chairman.html   (1357 words)

  
 The lord knows - CommentAnalysisCBD - www.smh.com.au
Young and genial Viscount Rothermere, a babe at 35, deferred to "the wisdom and experience that age brings" at the annual meeting this week of the Daily Mail and General Trust plc, which he chairs.
The average age of directors is now greatly reduced by the young Lord himself and his friend, the 39-year-old very eligible multi-millionaire founder of the Carphone Warehouse chain, Charles Dunstone.
Prompted by a shareholder on the age issue, Lord Rothermere responded with a smile that "hopefully, wisdom and experience comes to us all", adding that directors were chosen because they had something to offer to the company.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/02/05/1075854003080.html   (952 words)

  
 Free Press? Censorship in the UK and around the world, D Notices, DIY video production guide, Lord Northcliffe, Lord ...
The two continued to correspond, Rothermere even taking the time to send the Fuhrer a birthday note: "may I join the myriads of those who, on your birthday, will be wishing you long life to crown your efforts to achieve good government, liberty and peace".
Rothermere now had a bigger stake in the people’s paper set up to provide a permanent alternative to his Bristol operation.
His brother was made Lord Rothermere and he took the business over in the 1920's after 1st Lord Northcliffe died in mysterious circumstances.
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