 Beaverbrook himself gave evidence before the inquiry and vehemently denied the allegations; Express Newspapers general manager E. J. Robertson denied that Robeson had been blacklisted, but did admit that Coward had been "boycotted" because he had enraged Beaverbrook with his film "In Which We Serve", for in the opening sequence Coward included an ironic shot showing a copy of the "Daily Express" floating in the dockside rubbish bearing the headline "No War This Year".In the late 1930s, Beaverbrook used his newspapers to promote the appeasement policies of the Chamberlain government.The slogan 'There will be no war' was used by the "Daily Express".