Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook 15% across the board, took control of aircraft repairs and RAF storage units, replaced the management of plants that were underperforming, and released German Jewish engineers from internment to work in the factories. He seized materials and equipment destined for other departments and was perpetually at odds with the Air Ministry. His appeal for pots and pans "to make Spitfires" was afterwards revealed by his son Sir Max Aitken to have been nothing more than a propaganda exercise. Still, a "Time Magazine" cover story declared, "Even if Britain goes down this fall, it will not be Lord Beaverbrook's fault. If
Max Beloff, Baron Beloff the lectures later published as "Foreign Policy and the Democratic Process". He became governor of the University of Haifa, and was knighted in 1980 and elevated to a life peerage with the title Baron Beloff, "of Wolvercote in the County of Oxfordshire" on 26 May 1981. After his death the University of Buckingham established 'The Max Beloff Centre for the Study of Liberty' in January 2005. Works edited by Beloff include: Max Beloff, Baron Beloff Max Beloff, Baron Beloff (2 July 1913 – 22 March 1999) was a British historian and Conservative peer. From 1974 to 1979 he was principal