Word: bevin
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Churchill quickly formed a National Government, including such men as Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, and Lord Beaverbrook. But it was Churchill him- self who told the world: "We shall go on to the end, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender...
...noblemen, and he has a pugnacious streak that his fragile air belies. In the Cabinet and the country at large, Home's blunt, hardheaded performance as Foreign Secretary has won him a degree of respect accorded to only one of his postwar predecessors, Labor's late Ernie Bevin. Remembering Churchill's innocence of economics and social problems, many politicians believed that Home-Sweet-Home, as Winston called him, could easily fill the same gaps in his experience...
...Back when the U.N. first began making small nations feel big, Guatemala's Ambassador to the Court of St. James's barged in on then British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. British Honduras, proclaimed the ambassador, belonged to neighboring Guatemala and must be handed over instantly. Bevin heard the fellow out, then leaned over, tapped him on the knee, and cut him down to size with a single question: "What did you say you called your country...
...Bevin's one-upmanship won that round, but the Guatemalans have never given up. Little does it matter to them that Guatemala never once held the swampy, New Hampshire-sized territory east of its border (see map)-or that in 1859 it signed a boundary treaty recognizing British sovereignty. The treaty is invalid, argues Guatemala, because Britain reneged on a promise to build a road across the frontier. The road, says Britain, was supposed to be a joint project. British Hondurans, all 90,000 of them, want no part of annexation by Guatemala; they speak English, are predominantly Negro...
...past decade, Labor's strength has been sapped by internal bickering and by the loss of many of its ablest men (Gaitskell, Sir Stafford Cripps, Ernest Bevin, Aneurin Bevan). The feuding has faded, and Labor finds itself in the best shape in years to topple the government of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. A Gallup poll last week indicated that Labor had a 15½% lead over the Conservatives, the lowest the Tories have been in eleven years in power...