 Beaverbrook supported the Munich Agreement and hoped the newly named Duke of Windsor would seek a peace deal with Germany.Testifying before a Parliamentary inquiry in 1947, former "Express" employee and future MP Michael Foot alleged that Beaverbrook kept a blacklist of notable public figures who were to be denied any publicity in his papers because of personal disputes.Foot said they included Sir Thomas Beecham, Paul Robeson, Haile Selassie and Noël Coward.