Jewish Terror: The Story of Lord Northcliffe | National Vanguard Jewish Terror: The Story of Lord Northcliffe Rosemary Pennington 2015-04-26 Lord Northcliffe (pictured) was a victim of the Zionist establishment whose story deserves to be told, though it was covered up for decades. The lessons for us in his story are deep and profound. by Kevin Alfred Strom THE PRESS MAGNATE Alfred Harmsworth, later Britain’s Lord Northcliffe, once said: “News is what someone, somewhere is trying to suppress; the rest is just advertising.” Despite the fact that he was one of the most powerful men in what was then the British Empire, Northcliffe would eventually pay for that attitude with his life. Northcliffe’s fall — from being one of the most powerful men in the world to being imprisoned as insane after which he quickly died — took only a few days. The trigger was his challenge to the Jewish power structure.

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. He emerged victorious, just as he had in earlier decades when his business acumen and editorial skill had made him the outright owner of the two of the most widely read newspapers in Britain (and many other periodicals) and the majority proprietor of the then-leading newspaper in the world, The Times of London. Lord Northcliffe was possibly the earliest example of the modern press baron. 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. Douglas Reed, in his interesting book The Controversy of Zion, writes “He was sometimes right and sometimes wrong in the causes he launched or espoused, but he was independent and unpurchasable. He somewhat resembled Mr.

Randolph Hearst and Colonel Robert McCormick in America, which is to say that he would do many things to increase the circulation of his newspapers, but only within the limits of national interest; he would not peddle blasphemy, obscenity, libel or sedition. He could not be cowed and was a force in the land.” Northcliffe, the son of an English barrister, was born Alfred Harmsworth near Dublin on the 15th of July 1865. 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. He then founded a children’s newspaper, Comic Cuts, a woman’s magazine, Forget-Me-Nots, purchased the bankrupt Evening News and made it a success by modernizing it, and founded the revolutionary Daily Mail, which pioneered low-cost production, lavish use of illustrations, the smaller tabloid paper size, terse, fact-filled writing, sports and women’s sections, serial novels, and banner headlines. By the time of the Boer war, the paper sold a million copies a day.

Harmsworth took what he considered a patriotic position, stating that the Mail stood for “the power, the supremacy and the greatness of the British Empire.” The part-Jewish publisher Joseph Pulitzer was so impressed with Harmsworth’s talents that he hired him to edit the first edition of his brand new New York World on the first day of the twentieth century, which he did — using the tabloid (meaning compressed) size which he had pioneered and named, and which later become the dominant format for British newspapers. 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. He took his losses and accepted his defeat with philosophy and humor, saying “Disaster may often be changed to triumph by alteration in tactics. The faculty of knowing when you are beaten is much more valuable than the faculty of thinking you are not beaten when you are. I had for many years a theory that a daily newspaper for women was in urgent request, and I started one. The belief cost me £100,000. I found out that I was beaten. Women don’t want a daily paper of their own.

It was another instance of the failures made by a mere man in diagnosing women’s needs. Some people say that a woman never really knows what she wants. It is certain she knew what she didn’t want. She didn’t want the Daily Mirror.” It was in 1905, the same year that he purchased The Times and the Sunday Observer, that his achievements were recognized by his being made Lord Northcliffe — at 40 the youngest-ever peer of the realm. [ ] The First World War was a tragedy of bloodletting, destruction, and death for millions of the best young men of our European race on every side of the conflict — a tragedy from which we have still not yet recovered. Its origins are lost in obscure and shifting alliances, commercial jealousy, and the cynical ‘balance of power’ policy favored by the British Empire at the expense of pan-European interests. Its end was a farrago of madness in which avarice, revenge, crackpot ‘liberal’ nuttiness, and Zionism dominated. It is this last item — Zionism — with which we are — and Lord Northcliffe was — concerned.

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. Britain could yet win this war, the Zionists argued, if America could be brought into the conflict on Britain’s side. With their already-substantial control of the American press, and with their tight circle of ‘advisors’ around President Wilson (who was beholden to them because of indiscreet letters in their possession which he had written to a woman not his wife), the Zionists made a good case that they could deliver what they promised. But there was a price to be paid. The British Empire was at that time administering the small Middle Eastern territory of Palestine, populated mainly by Palestinian Arabs and Christians and with only a small minority of Jews. The Zionist Jews coveted that territory — which later became Israel when their land-grab came to fruition — and their price for bringing American soldiers to die in Flanders fields was a declaration from Britain that the Empire favored the establishment of a Jewish state there. The price was paid.

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. The scholar Revilo Oliver has stated that Milner’s interest in supporting the Zionists, apart from the immediate objective of winning the war, was in removing as many Jews as possible from Britain, and giving them their own country thousands of miles away seemed as good a way of doing that as any. Similar motives animated Balfour, as I stated on this program last year: “…Balfour’s naiveté [is] in this case, a stand-in and symbol of White naiveté in general. The Jews wanted a policy statement from the then-dominant world power, the British Empire, and they got it and used it to the hilt, not hesitating to kill Britons when it suited them, as in the Zionist bombing of the King David Hotel, and while other Jews were, especially after World War II, doing everything in their power to undermine the status of the White nations including Britain.

The Zionist entity has outlasted the British Empire which gave it birth, though Little Britain is still of some assistance in some projects, like the murder of Iraqis, currently being undertaken by the self-styled masters of the world. What’s really interesting about Balfour, who gave the Jews their foothold in Palestine, was that he didn’t particularly like Jews — and that he was a racialist. Like Adolf Hitler later, Balfour was enamoured of the idea of the Jews leaving Europe to found their own state elsewhere. Both men negotiated with Zionist Jews to effect that end. Hitler offered them Madagascar in 1938. In 1903, while he was Prime Minister, Balfour offered them Uganda. In debates on the Alien Act of 1905, Balfour sought to cut off Jewish immigration into Britain. Balfour openly admitted in 1914 (to leading Zionist Chaim Weizmann, no less) that he shared the extreme anti-Jewish sentiments of Cosima Wagner. Balfour [even] spoke against Jewish immigration in the House of Commons.” After the war, Lord Northcliffe became alarmed by Zionist ambitions and Jewish power.

In 1920, he publicized the book that has been banned and furiously denounced by the Jews perhaps more than any other, the famous Protocols of Zion, which purports to be notes taken at a meeting of Jews sometime during the nineteenth century, detailing a plan for world domination through intrigues, deception, and terror. I have already published my criticism of the Protocols elsewhere, but suffice it to say here that, although the book is unlikely to be what it claims to be — an actual record of an actual meeting — and though it clearly was created by a polemicist with a religious bias (witness its barbs directed at Darwin and Nietzsche, for example), its insights into the Jewish mentality and Jewish techniques are insightful and its tracing (before 1905!) of many of the paths that would be taken by the Jewish establishment in the last century are amazing. Northcliffe probably saw the Protocols much as I see them, and decided they deserved to be seen and investigated by the British people.

Accordingly he saw to it that significant parts of them were published in the most prestigious newspaper in the country, The Times, of which he was the principal owner, under the title ‘The Jewish Peril, a Disturbing Pamphlet, Call for Enquiry.’ He did not declare the Protocols to be true, but rather called for a full investigation to discover whether or not they were true. He stated that “an impartial investigation of these would-be documents and of their history is most desirable … are we to dismiss the whole matter without inquiry and to let the influence of such a book as this work unchecked?” In 1922, Northcliffe asked the editor of The Times, Wickham Steed, to travel to Palestine to investigate the real nature of the Zionist project there, feeling sure that Steed, once he saw how a tiny and foreign Jewish minority was determined to use every foul means to dispossess the Palestinians, would make a 180 degree turn and stop supporting Chaim Weizmann and the other Zionists as he had theretofore.

In this Northcliffe miscalculated badly, for the Zionist hold on Steed (the exact nature of which deserves further investigation) was so strong that Steed openly refused to act upon any of the requests of the man who was the majority owner of the paper and who was therefore his employer! Steed would not go to Palestine; Steed would not publish an article critical of Balfour’s attitude toward Zionism when asked to do so; and, when Northcliffe himself went to Palestine, Steed would not even publish Northcliffe’s own dispatches from that troubled land. Who was protecting Steed? Who and what was motivating Steed? These questions became even more important later that year. Douglas Reed wrote: Then in 1922 Lord Northcliffe visited Palestine, accompanied by a journalist, Mr. J.M.N. Jeffries (whose subsequent book, Palestine: The Reality, remains the classic work of reference for that period). This was a combination of a different sort from that formed by the editors of The Times and Manchester Guardian, who wrote their leading articles about Palestine in England and in consultation with the Zionist chieftain, Dr. Weizmann.

Lord Northcliffe, on the spot, reached the same conclusion as all other impartial investigators, and wrote, “In my opinion we, without sufficient thought, guaranteed Palestine as a home for the Jews despite the fact that 700,000 Arab Moslems live there and own it … The Jews seemed to be under the impression that all England was devoted to the one cause of Zionism, enthusiastic for it in fact; and I told them that this was not so and to be careful that they do not tire out our people by secret importation of arms to fight 700,000 Arabs … There will be trouble in Palestine . . . people dare not tell the Jews the truth here. They have had some from me.” The articles by Jeffries and Northcliffe didn’t get published in The Times, but they did see the light of day in Northcliffe’s other papers, greatly alarming the Zionists, who needed the acquiescence of the British people for their land-grab to succeed. Things started happening very fast for Lord Northcliffe soon thereafter. On February 26th, 1922, he returned from Palestine.

On March 2nd, he strongly criticized Steed at an editorial conference, expecting to precipitate his resignation. To Northcliffe’s amazement, Steed did not resign but decided to consult an attorney “to secure a lawyer’s opinion on the degree of provocation necessary to constitute unlawful dismissal.” Then, Steed says, he consulted Northcliffe’s own legal advisor who supposedly stated that Lord Northcliffe was “abnormal”, “incapable of business” and, judging from his appearance, “unlikely to live long” and who therefore advised the editor “to continue in his post.” On March 31st, Steed went to see Northcliffe in France and upon returning started spreading the story — even telling a director of the paper — that Northcliffe was “going mad.” Douglas Reed himself worked with Northcliffe a few weeks later and reports he saw nothing at all indicating illness, madness, or abnormality of any kind. Reed also states that a very sane and sober Northcliffe informed him that someone was trying to kill him. Reed tells us: The suggestion of madness thus was put out by an editor whom Lord Northcliffe desired to remove and the impressions of others therefore are obviously relevant.

On May 3, 1922 Lord Northcliffe attended a farewell luncheon in London for a retiring editor of one of his papers and “was in fine form.” On May 11, 1922 he made “an excellent and effective speech” to the Empire Press Union and “most people who had thought him ‘abnormal’ believed they were mistaken.” A few days later Lord Northcliffe telegraphed instructions to the Managing Director of The Times to arrange for the editor’s resignation. This Managing Director saw nothing “abnormal” in such an instruction and was not “in the least anxious about Northcliffe’s health.” Another director, who then saw him, “considered him to have quite as good a life risk as his own”: he “noticed nothing unusual in Northcliffe’s manner or appearance” (May 24, 1922). On June 11th, Steed met Northcliffe again in France and Northcliffe bluntly told him that he, Northcliffe, would now assume editorship of The Times. The next day, Steed, Northcliffe, and the entire entourage were aboard a train bound for Evian-les-Bains.

Unknown to Northcliffe, a doctor (whose name has not been revealed to this day) was secreted aboard the train by Steed, and somehow Northcliffe was manipulated into his custody. When the train arrived in Switzerland another unnamed physician (described years later only as “a brilliant French nerve specialist”) was summoned and declared Northcliffe “insane.” Immediately Steed telegraphed the ‘news’ to London and ordered The Times to disregard and not to publish any communications from its primary owner. On June 13th, Steed returned to London. On June 18th, Northcliffe was back in London, too, but in custody and totally removed from all control of or communication with his far-flung enterprises. Even his telephone lines were cut. Police were posted at the offices of The Times to prevent his entering should he reach them. He never did. On that same day, with Northcliffe out of circulation and his powerful voice of protest silenced, the League of Nations voted to reconfirm the ‘British Mandate’ in Palestine, which had mutated into a ‘mandate’ to install the Zionists in power there by violence and fraud.

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. It was concealed for thirty years, eventually coming out in the Official History of The Times and, in greater detail in Reed’s The Controversy of Zion. When Northcliffe died, he left in his will three month’s salary to each of his 6,000 employees, a total of 533,000 pounds — a huge sum in today’s inflated currency. The story of Northcliffe’s challenge to the Zionists deserves more study, as does the continuation of that challenge by Northcliffe’s brother Harold, Lord Rothermere. 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.

They must not be misled by the misrepresentations of its opponents. The most spiteful detractors of the Nazis are to be found in precisely the same sections of the British public and press as are most vehement in their praises of the Soviet regime in Russia. They have started a clamorous campaign of denunciation against what they call “Nazi atrocities” which, as anyone who visits Germany quickly discovers for himself, consists merely of a few isolated acts of violence such as are inevitable among a nation half as big again as ours, but which have been generalized, multiplied and exaggerated to give the impression that Nazi rule is a bloodthirsty tyranny. The German nation, moreover, was rapidly falling under the control of its alien elements. In the last days of the pre-Hitler regime there were twenty times as many Jewish Government officials in Germany as had existed before the war. Israelites of international attachments were insinuating themselves into key positions in the German administrative machine. Three German Ministers only had direct relations with the Press, but in each case the official responsible for conveying news and interpreting policy to the public was a Jew.

First World War.com - Who's Who - Lord Northcliffe What's New 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. Sponsored Links Born in Ireland, Harmsworth started his remarkable career as a freelance journalist having left school at 16 for that purpose. He became a regular contributor to the popular periodicals of the day. Having seen the manner and method by which such magazines were published in the U.S. Harmsworth was convinced he could transform the British market with a new magazine publication of his own. Thus in 1888 he founded - with brother Harold (later Viscount Rothermere) as his financial administrator - Answers to Correspondents. In the space of just five years the brothers increased the circulation of their weekly magazine to in excess of a million copies. Harmsworth founded and bought out other magazine periodicals and, over time, constructed the world's largest magazine publishing house, the suitably named Amalgamated Press.

Deciding to branch out into newspaper publishing, in 1894 he bought the London Evening News. Within the realm of newspaper publishing Harmsworth worked to introduce numerous popular features hitherto unseen in the daily press, including book serialisations, social gossip and women's columns. He founded the Daily Mirror in 1903 (seven years after similarly founding the bestselling Daily Mail) as a women's newspaper, but was forced to backtrack after initial sales proved disastrous. Transforming it instead into a popular daily for both men and women the usual Harmsworth pattern emerged: it rapidly established itself as a huge-selling daily newspaper. In 1904, having previously turned down the offer of a knighthood, Harmsworth was made a baronet, as he himself requested. The following year he became the youngest peer of the realm to date as he took the title Lord Northcliffe. Having bought the fading Times in 1908 Northcliffe reinvigorated it, galvanising its sales in the process. He retained ownership of this most prestigious of newspapers (which he was aware carried enormous political clout) until his death, when it was sold on to John Jacob Astor.

Early in the First World War Northcliffe embarked on a campaign target primarily against Lord Kitchener but which also encompassed the Prime Minister Herbert Asquith . The campaign against Kitchener was ostensibly directed at the perceived munitions shortage on the Western Front overseen by Kitchener (and disastrously highlighted by the then Commander in Chief, Sir John French , and which helped to lose him his job). However Kitchener (of Khartoum) was a long-established national hero and sales plummeted overnight, with over a million lost sales. Nevertheless Northcliffe's publicly expressed views on Kitchener's shortcomings were privately shared by many in the cabinet. Kitchener's death at sea in June 1916 was openly welcomed by Harmsworth as aiding the war effort ("the British Empire has just had the greatest stroke of luck in its history"). Later that year Asquith was himself effectively hounded from office (as had the First Sea Lord Prince Louis of Battenberg in October 1914); in his place emerged David Lloyd George , who received key support from Harmsworth's newspapers.

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. Made a viscount in 1917, Lloyd George finally convinced Northcliffe that he could play an effective role in government, with the latter accepting an appointment as Director of Propaganda - a position to which he was ideally suited. He quickly arranged for some four million leaflets to be dropped by air into enemy territories. Having resigned from the government on Armistice day, and finding himself excluded from the Versailles peace settlement - much to his annoyance - Northcliffe led calls (as ever, through his newspapers) for a punitive settlement upon Germany. In return for offering support for Lloyd George's coalition government in the 1918 general election, Northcliffe required that the former accept a list of the names of people who should feature in his government. Lloyd George refused; even without Northcliffe's support Lloyd George won the election handily.

His health rapidly deteriorating from 1921, Northcliffe suffering from Streptococcus, an infection of the bloodstream. He died the following year in August 1922. Characteristically, he stipulated in his will that all of his six thousand employees were to be granted the equivalent of three months additional salary as a bonus; which amounted to ï¿½533,000. Click here to read Lord Northcliffe's account of the early stages of the Battle of Verdun . Sponsored Links Saturday, 22 August, 2009 Michael Duffy "Devil Dogs" was the nickname given to the U.S. Marines by the German Army. - Did you know? Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe ▼ Primary Sources ▼ Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe Alfred Harmsworth, the son of an English barrister, was born in Chapelizod near Dublin , on 15th July, 1865. An indifferent scholar he was educated at St John's Wood, a small, private day school in London . He developed an interest in journalism when he began editing the school magazine.

After leaving school Harmsworth found work with Youth, an illustrated magazine for boys, owned by the Illustrated London News . In 1886 he was employed by Edward Iliffe to edit his magazine, Bicycling News. The great publishing success at the time was Tit-Bits, a magazine that was selling 900,000 copies a month. In 1888 Harmsworth decided to join with his brother, Harold Harmsworth , to publish a similar type of magazine called Answers to Correspondents. He told his readers that every question sent in would be answered by post, and the answers of those of general interest would be published in the magazine. Answers to Correspondents was a great success and within four years he was selling over a million copies a week. This success helped him finance the children's paper, Comic Cuts and a woman's magazine, Forget-Me-Nots. In 1894 decided to become involved in newspaper publishing. The Evening News was nearly bankrupt when purchased by Harmsworth for £25,000. With the help of Kennedy Jones, he dramatically changed the paper. Although he retained the traditional seven column layout, advertisements were reduced to a single column on the left.

Six columns of news were presented in a crisper style with eye-catching headlines such as Was it Suicide or Apoplexy?, Another Battersea Scandal, Bones in Bishopgate, Hypnotism and Lunacy and Killed by a Grindstone. Harmsworth also began to use illustrations to break-up the text. By 16th November the Evening News was able to state that sales had now reached 394,447. Harmsworth claimed this as a world record for a newspaper and added that sales would be over 500,000 if they owned more printing presses. By 1896 circulation approached 800,000 with annual profits of £50,000. Harmsworth now decided to start a new paper based on the style of newspapers published in the USA. By the time the first issue of the Daily Mail appeared for the first time on 4th May, 1896, over 65 dummy runs had taken place, at a cost of £40,000. When published for the first time, the eight page newspaper cost only halfpenny.

Slogans used to sell the newspaper included 'A Penny Newspaper for One Halfpenny' and 'The Busy Man's Daily Newspaper'. The Daily Mail was the first newspaper in Britain that catered for a new reading public that needed something simpler, shorter and more readable than those that had previously been available. One new innovation was the banner headline that went right across the page. Considerable space was given to sport and human interest stories. It was also the first newspaper to include a woman's section that dealt with issues such as fashions and cookery. Another innovation introduced by the Daily Mail was the publication of serials. Personally supervised by Harmsworth, the average length was 100,000 words. The opening episode was 5,000 words and had to have a dramatic impact on the readers. This was followed by episodes of 1,500 to 2,000 words every day. The Daily Mail was an immediate success and circulation quickly achieved 500,000. With the strong interest in the Boer War in 1899 sales went to over a million.

Harmsworth encouraged people to buy the Daily Mail for nationalistic reasons making it clear to his readers that his newspaper stood "for the power, the supremacy and the greatness of the British Empire". Lord Northcliffe Joseph Pulitzer , the newspaper magnate in the United States was so impressed with Harmsworth's achievements that he invited him to edit his New York World on the first day of the twentieth century. Harmsworth accepted the challenge and decided to change its size for the occasion. He gave this new small paper the name tabloid (compressed) that was later to become the main size of newspapers in Britain. Harmsworth used his newspapers to promote inventions such as the telephone, electric light, photography, motorcycles, motor cars and aircraft. He was so passionate about cars that Harmsworth prohibited the editor of the Daily Mail from reporting details of automobile accidents. On some issues Harmsworth held traditional views. He became concerned about the popularity of white bread and began a campaign to support the wholemeal loaf.

In one article he wrote for the Daily Mail he argued that "better teeth, stronger bones, steadier nerves and a greater natural immunity against disease, particularly consumption, will be found if the people of England will discard the present white loaf for a more wholemeal bread". In 1903 Harmsworth produced the first newspaper, The Daily Mirror , aimed at women. Kennedy Jones was put in charge of the project and spent £100,000 in publicity, including a gift scheme of gilt and enamel mirrors. On its first day, the circulation of the Daily Mirror was 276,000. However, sales dropped dramatically after the initial launch and by January, 1904, circulation was down to 24,000 and the newspaper was losing £3,000 a week. Harmsworth decided to change his original plan. The editor, Mary Howarth, was replaced by Hamilton Fyfe , who changed it to a picture paper for men as well as women. As Harmsworth later recalled: "Some people say that a woman never really knows what she wants. It is certain she knew what she didn't want. She didn't want the Daily Mirror .

I then changed the price to a halfpenny, and filled it full of photographs and pictures to see how that would do." Within a month sales had increased sevenfold. Fyfe also experimented with using different types of photographs on the front-page. On 2nd April, 1904, the Daily Mirror published a whole page of pictures of Edward VII and his children, Henry, Albert and Mary. This was a great success and Harmsworth now realised the British public had an intense interest in photographs of the Royal Family. Another successful innovation was the sponsorship of special events. In June, 1904, the Daily Mirror paid D. M. Weigal to drive a twenty-horse power Talbot on a 26,000 mile motor run. A month later the newspaper offered a hundred guinea prize for the first person to swim the Channel. Harmsworth was offered a knighthood but turned it down saying he wanted to become a baronet. This he received on 23rd June, 1904. The following year he became the youngest ever peer of the realm when he took the title Lord Northcliffe.

As he had once said that "when I want a peerage I will buy one" his enemies accused him of corruptly purchasing the honour. In August 1905, the Daily Mirror began to pioneer the idea of the "exclusive". The first example was the "exclusive" interview with Lord Minto, the new Viceroy of India. This approach was popular and later that year the circulation of the newspaper had reached 350,000. In 1905 Northcliffe obtained the Sunday Observer and three years later he purchased The Times for £320,000. Circulation of the paper had fallen to 38,000 and was losing money. Northcliffe re-equipped its outdated printing plant, reduced the newspaper's price by a penny to twopence, and appointed a new editor, Geoffrey Dawson . In March, 1914, Northcliffe reduced the price even further and it was not long before the one penny Times was selling 278,000 copies a day.

Harmsworth was a great supporter of flying and in 1906 offered a prize of £1,000 for the first airman to cross the English Channel from Calais to Dover and £10,000 prize for the first completed flight from London to Manchester . The idea seemed so preposterous that Punch Magazine decided to poke fun at Harmsworth by offering a prize of £10,000 for the first flight to Mars. However, by June 1910, both of Harmsworth's prizes had been won by French pilots. Harmsworth was worried about the possible consequences of aircraft for the defence of Britain. He realised that it would soon be possible for foreign pilots to drop bombs on Britain. He wrote a letter warning Richard Haldane , Secretary of War, about his concerns, but failed to persuade the government that this danger existed. Before the outbreak of the First World War Harmsworth was accused of being a war-monger. As early as 1897 he had sent the writer G. W. Steevens to Germany to produce a sixteen-part series entitled Under the Iron Heel.

The articles praised the German Army and warned that Britain was in danger of being defeated in a war against Germany. Three years later Northcliffe wrote an editorial in the Daily Mail predicting a war with Germany In October 1909 Northcliffe employed Robert Blatchford , the Socialist editor of the Clarion , to visit Germany to write a series of articles on the dangers that the Germans posed to Britain. Blatchford agreed with Northcliffe on the problem and in one article wrote: "I believe that Germany is deliberately preparing to destroy the British Empire" and warned that Britain needed to spend more money in defending itself against attack. Lord Northcliffe Soon after the outbreak of the First World War the editor of The Star newspaper claimed that: "Next to the Kaiser, Lord Northcliffe has done more than any living man to bring about the war." Lord Northcliffe was determined to make the Daily Mail the official newspaper of the British Army . Every day 10,000 copies of the paper were delivered to the Western Front by military motor cars. He also had the revolutionary idea of using front-line soldiers as news sources. In August 1914 he announced a scheme where he would pay soldiers for articles written about their experiences.

Northcliffe was determined to make the Daily Mail the official newspaper of the British Army . Every day 10,000 copies of the paper were delivered to the Western Front by military motor cars. He also had the revolutionary idea of using front-line soldiers as news sources. In August 1914 he announced a scheme where he would pay soldiers for articles written about their experiences. During the early stages of the conflict Northcliffe created a great deal of controversy by advocating conscription and criticizing Lord Kitchener . In an article he wrote on 21st May, 1915, Northcliffe wrote a blistering attack on the Secretary of State for War: "Lord Kitchener has starved the army in France of high-explosive shells. The admitted fact is that Lord Kitchener ordered the wrong kind of shell - the same kind of shell which he used largely against the Boers in 1900. He persisted in sending shrapnel - a useless weapon in trench warfare. He was warned repeatedly that the kind of shell required was a violently explosive bomb which would dynamite its way through the German trenches and entanglements and enable our brave men to advance in safety.

This kind of shell our poor soldiers have had has caused the death of thousands of them." Lord Kitchener was a national hero and Harmsworth's attack on him upset a great number of readers. Overnight, the circulation of the Daily Mail dropped from 1,386,000 to 238,000. A placard was hung across the Daily Mail nameplate with the words "The Allies of the Huns". Over 1,500 members of the Stock Exchange had a meeting where they passed a motion against the "venomous attacks of the Hamsworth Press" and afterwards ceremoniously burnt copies of the offending newspaper. Although the leader of the government, Herbert Asquith , accused Northcliffe and his newspapers of disloyalty, he privately accepted that shell production was a real problem and he appointed David Lloyd George as the new Munitions Minister. Northcliffe also attacked the government for the failed operation at Gallipoli . He wrote about the "forty thousand killed, missing or drowned; three hundred millions of treasury thrown away" and argued that even if the campaign had been successful "to win this war, the German line itself must be broken" on the Western Front .

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. Not only did he criticize Asquith as a man of inaction but claimed that Germany was afraid that David Lloyd George would become prime minister. When Asquith resigned in December, 1916, the new prime minister, David Lloyd George decided that it was be safer to have Northcliffe in his government. However, Northcliffe refused an offer of a place in Lloyd George's cabinet as he knew it would undermine his ability to criticize the government. Although Lloyd George offered Northcliffe a cabinet position he disliked the man intensely. In a confidential letter to his Parliamentary Private Secretary he wrote at the time he claimed that: "Northcliffe is one of the biggest intriguers and most unscrupulous people in the country." The Daily Mail was extremely hostile to the Russian Revolution .

As Roland Chambers pointed out: "For the Allies, Soviet talks with Germany were not only a betrayal of the treaties signed at the beginning of the war, but a breach of faith with ordinary soldiers then fighting on the Western Front. Stretched to the limit of its own resources, the British government pictured the grain which would nourish German cities, the oil which would fuel German military vehicles and the German troops who, released from duty in the east, would transfer to France for a potentially decisive offensive. It was for these reasons that Lord Northcliffe's papers continued to beat the same old drums: a German-Jewish conspiracy that would plunge the world into darkness; priests crucified before their congregations; and particularly offensive to the Archbishop of Canterbury, a Soviet initiative to nationalize women." In March, 1918, Northcliffe was approached by Lord Beaverbrook , the owner of the Daily Express and the government's new Minister of Information . Northcliffe now agreed to join the cabinet and take charge of all propaganda directed at enemy countries. Over the next few months Northcliffe organised the dropping of four million leaflets behind enemy lines. On Armistice Day Northcliffe resigned from the government.

In the 1918 General Election Northcliffe refused to support David Lloyd George after he refused to accept a list of people who should be in his new government. During the election campaign Northcliffe called for Kaiser Wilhelm to be hanged and the imposition of severe financial penalties on Germany. After the war Northcliffe retained his interest in new technology. He began a campaign to promote wireless communication by arranging for the Daily Mail to sponsor the world's first wireless concert. In an editorial Northcliffe argued: "Once before the Daily Mail stirred the national imagination to realise the vital importance of flying. It has now taken the lead in private wireless experiments with the object of cultivating national receptivity for the new science and of bringing minds in train for achievements to come." Northcliffe's health deteriorated rapidly in 1921. He was suffering from streptococcus, an infection of the bloodstream, that damages the valves of the heart and causes kidney malfunction. Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe, died in August, 1922. In his will he left three months' salary to each of his six thousand employees, a sum of £533,000.

lord-northcliffe - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com jump to other results born Alfred Charles William Harmsworth (1865-1922) a British newspaper publisher, born in Ireland. He started the Daily Mail in 1896 and the Daily Mirror in 1903, introducing a style of journalism that was then new to Britain. Articles were short and lively, with some written specially for women, and more headlines (= phrases printed above articles in a large size) were used. Northcliffe was also the owner of The Times from 1908 to 1922. He helped the British government with their propaganda (= information published to influence public opinion) during World War I, and in 1917 was made a viscount. He was a very strong character who liked power. His younger brother Harold (later Lord Rothermere) was his partner in his early career.

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1016—1040) king of England Show all results sharing these subjects: Archaeology (1865—1922) journalist and newspaper proprietor Quick Reference (1865–1922) Britishnewspaper proprietor Born Alfred Harmsworth in Dublin, he founded the Daily Mail (1896), the Daily Mirror (1903), and bought The Times in 1908. His brother, Viscount Rothermere (born Harold Harmsworth) joined him and proved gifted in garnering advertising revenue, which came to be the dominant revenue source of newspapers. Their Amalgamated Press (including Comic Cuts, famously labelled as ‘Amusing Without Being Vulgar’) became one of the world's largest media empires of its time, with a specific marketing slant towards the new reading public of literate working men and (especially) women. Northcliffe's papers were initially regarded with contempt by the British establishment. Lord Cecil's view on the Daily Mail was typical of the upper-class reactions of the time: ‘a newspaper for office boys written by office boys’.

However, Northcliffe's genius for flattering and understanding his essentially educated working-class and lower middle-class readership, resulted in massive sales. His advice to his journalists was always ‘Explain, Simplify, Clarify’, and his shrewd assessment of the newspaper business remains perfectly valid today: ‘News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress, all the rest is advertising.’ The great age of Britain's popular press is drawing squalidly to its close | Ian Jack | Opinion | The Guardian The great age of Britain's popular press is drawing squalidly to its close Ian Jack Lord Northcliffe reinvented the popular press 100 years ago, and long remained the model for the modern British proprietor His ‘enterprising devotion to the frivolous’ transformed the popular press … but Lord Northcliffe had an unhappy end. Photograph: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images Friday 8 July 2011 17.00 EDT First published on Friday 8 July 2011 17.00 EDT Share on Messenger Close Who will mourn the passing of the News of the World? The staff will, especially those not recruited by the Sun on Sunday.

A pure-minded lover of Pakistani cricket might, thanking "the fake sheikh" for exposing the national team's easy corruption. This week everyone hates the News of the World , and yet only last Sunday around 2.6 million people liked it enough to buy a copy. They didn't mind what they were reading, so long as they didn't know how some of it came to be written. And they didn't mind that too much, either – if they knew about phone hacking, they overlooked it – until it came to the case of the abducted and then murdered girl, Milly Dowler. We own what the Victorians knew as our baser selves. When the News of the World first appeared in 1843, Britain was embarking on a long age of public respectability in which salacious accounts of sex and violence were hard to find. The News of the World made this a specialism, mainly by reporting court cases no other paper would touch. The education acts of 1870 and 1880 spread literacy through every social class and hugely expanded the reading public.

By 1914, the paper was selling a couple of million copies a week, all of them deliciously published on a day nominally devoted to worship and quiet reflection. In its peak year, 1949, the circulation averaged close to 8.5m and required not a parcels van or two but a whole train to take Scottish copies north from the presses in Manchester. It was, by then, the world's biggest-selling newspaper – a publishing triumph owned by an English family, the Carrs, that exploited an otherwise unsatisfied appetite for sexual voyeurism and scandal. At 11 o'clock in church: remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Behind one's lavatory door at 12: Vicar Denies Weekend in Caravan. "As British as roast beef and Yorkshire pudding," was how its then editor described his paper during the takeover battle of 1969 (and everyone knew that the loser, Robert Maxwell, was a Czech). Whether hypocrisy is a peculiarly British vice is debatable; other societies may be just as two-faced in different ways.

But understanding the difference between how people were supposed to be and how they actually were became a key weapon for the pioneers of British popular newspaper journalism when universal primary education delivered new audiences in the late 19th century. Social reformers and educationalists thought of reading in terms of self-improvement and a more skilled workforce – a moral and economic good. A new breed of newspaper publishers, of which Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe) was by far the most inventive, saw a less worthy side. He spread the message to his staff like a preacher: roughly, to subvert the words of Philip Larkin, readers were forever surprising a hunger in themselves to be more trivial. "Crime exclusives are noticed by the public more than any other sort of news," Northcliffe told his news editor at the Daily Mail, Tom Clarke, in 1921. "They attract attention, which is the secret of newspaper success. They are the sort of dramatic news the public always affects to criticise but is always in the greatest hurry to read. Watch the sales during a big murder mystery, especially if there is a woman in it. It is a revelation of how much the public is interested in realities, action and mystery.

It is only human." Northcliffe first put his "only human" principle to work as the 22-year-old editor-publisher of a little weekly, Answers to Correspondents, which told its readers how many MPs had glass eyes (three) or cork legs (one), and how tall Gladstone was (5ft 9ins!), and adjudicated debates over whether women lived longer than men and if snakes could kill pigs. Later he would say that his fortune had been founded on useless information, but by then he could afford to make jokes about his youth, having in the meantime launched the Daily Mail (1896) and the Daily Mirror (1903), and bought the Observer (1905) and the Times (1908). No one did more to shape the future of British journalism. Northcliffe divided news into two main divisions – reports of happenings and what he called "talking points", where his reporters would develop the topics people were discussing, or stimulate new ones. "What a great talking point," he told Clarke when he read that Paris had decided skirts should be long. "Every woman in the country will be excited about it.

We must start an illustrated discussion on 'THE BATTLE OF THE SKIRTS: LONG v SHORT.' Get different people's views. Cable to New York and Paris, get plenty of sketches by well-known artists … print as many as you can … plenty of legs." Such enterprising devotion to the frivolous – and to women – had never before been heard in a newspaper office. In this, he prefigured the modern British editor; similarly, his close relationships with politicians made him the model for the modern British proprietor. During the first world war he met a young Australian journalist, Keith Murdoch, and adopted him as a kind of editorial pupil. Promoted to an editorship in Melbourne, Murdoch emulated the maestro's techniques and forged his own political alliances, so much so he got the nickname Lord Southcliffe. His only son, Rupert, learned the trade at his knee. Northcliffe had an unhappy end. He became paranoid and issued bewildering instructions that his staff, trained to oblige his imperiousness, never knew how to disobey. He appointed a Daily Mail concierge as the censor of advertisements, he saw two moons in the sky at Biarritz, at Boulogne he tried to push a railway porter into the sea.

Perrier water became an obsession, and on the train from Dover to London he drank 13 bottles of it. (In the spirit of Answers, I can't resist the information that his brother, St John Harmsworth, bought the French spring that was then in the custody of a Dr Perrier. St John bottled the water in bottles shaped like Indian clubs and gave a few to Sir Thomas Lipton, which the grocery magnate pressed on King Edward VII, who gave Perrier a royal warrant. Bingo.) He died under the supervision of two nurses in a hut on the roof of a house in Carlton Gardens. Neurosyphilis has always been strongly rumoured, but never proved. It was an organic psychosis of some sort, in a mind that had been unsteadied by power. In his last days, he ordered hundreds of sackings, but he had always been a brisk sacker: "My dear Tom Clarke, Fire [name deleted]. Chief" is a memo reproduced by Clarke in his fascinating memoir. An editor who said she wasn't to blame for her paper's criminal behaviour because she'd been on holiday at the time? Her feet (I like to think) would never have touched the ground.

For the moment Rebekah Brooks stays, but all around her the great age of Britain's popular press is tumbling squalidly to its close. • To comment on this story or any other about phone hacking, please visit our open thread Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe | British publisher | Britannica.com Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe British publisher Alternative Titles: Baron Northcliffe of the Isle of Thanet, Harmsworth, Alfred Charles William, Viscount Northcliffe of Saint Peter, Lord Northcliffe Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe British publisher Baron Northcliffe of the Isle of Thanet Harmsworth, Alfred Charles William, Viscount Northcliffe of Saint Peter Lord Northcliffe John Strachey Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe, also called (from 1905) Baron Northcliffe of the Isle of Thanet (born July 15, 1865, Chapelizod, near Dublin , Ireland —died August 14, 1922, London , England ), one of the most successful newspaper publishers in the history of the British press and a founder of popular modern journalism.

Viscount Northcliffe, 1918. Associated Newspapers Ltd. After an impoverished childhood and a few attempts at making a quick fortune, young Harmsworth embarked on freelance journalism as a contributor to popular papers, rose to editorial positions, and, inspired by the success of Tit-Bits, a popular weekly of informative scraps, decided to start a similar paper of his own called Answers to Correspondents. After some difficulty in securing financial backing, he began publication, soon shortening the name to Answers. As the paper gained public favour, he was joined by his brother Harold, whose financial ability and capacity for attracting advertising, combined with Alfred’s genius for sensing the public taste, made it a success. Answers was followed by many other inexpensive popular periodicals, chief among them Comic Cuts (“Amusing Without Being Vulgar”) and Forget-Me-Not, for the new reading public of women. These formed the basis for what became the Amalgamated Press (from 1959 Fleetway Press), the largest periodical-publishing empire in the world.

In 1894 Harmsworth entered the newspaper field, purchasing the nearly bankrupt London Evening News and transforming it into a popular newspaper with brief news reports, a daily story, and a column for women. Within a year circulation had grown to 160,000 copies, and profits were substantial. Conceiving the idea of a chain of halfpenny morning papers in the provinces, he bought two papers in Glasgow, Scotland, and merged them into the Glasgow Daily Record. He then decided to experiment with a popular national daily in London. The Daily Mail , first published on May 4, 1896, was a sensational success. Announced as “the penny newspaper for one halfpenny” and “the busy man’s daily journal,” it was exactly suited to the new reading public. All news stories and feature articles were kept short, and articles of interest to women, political and social gossip, and a serial story were made regular features. Although news headlines remained, at first, modest in size, far more were used than in any previous paper. With its first issue, the Mail established a world record in daily newspaper circulation, a lead it never lost while its founder lived.

Britannica Stories Scientists Ponder Menopause in Killer Whales Next Harmsworth bought the Weekly Dispatch when it was nearly bankrupt and turned it (as the Sunday Dispatch) into the biggest-selling Sunday newspaper in the country. In 1903 he founded the Daily Mirror , which successfully exploited a new market as a picture paper, with a circulation rivaling that of the Daily Mail. Harmsworth saved the Observer from extinction in 1905, the year in which he was made Baron Northcliffe. In 1908 he reached the pinnacle of his career by securing control of The Times , which he transformed from a 19th-century relic into a modern newspaper. Northcliffe’s contributions to the British effort in World War I began with his early exposure in the Daily Mail of the British army’s shell shortage. His criticisms of Lord Kitchener aroused intense resentment in some quarters, but he also pressed for the creation of a separate Ministry of Munitions and for the formation (1915) of a wartime coalition government. For his service as head of the British war mission in the United States in 1917, he was created a viscount that year.

He acted as the British government’s director of propaganda aimed at Germany and other enemy countries in 1918. By this time Northcliffe’s press empire appeared to hold such power over public opinion that he tried unsuccessfully to influence the composition of Prime Minister David Lloyd George’s cabinet. Always unpredictable, Northcliffe became the victim of a megalomania that damaged his judgment and led to the breakdown that preceded his death.

Question: What is the family name of Lord Northcliffe?
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