Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winston Churchill; TIME, Nov. 4) described this crucial compromise in terms of the men who made it and who now rule wartime England. Some of them have been written up before. "Cato" mauled the Tories in his Guilty Men (TIME, Sept. 30). Patricia Strauss cleverly clawed the Laborites in Bevin and Co. (TIME, July 7). Rene Kraus's book mauls nobody, is the first book to line up for biographical inspection all of the 14 men who Kraus believes are "the men around Churchill...
...first half of her two weeks' stay she 1) addressed the nation over BBC; 2) spoke in the House of Commons in person; 3) ate meals with Winston Churchill, Lady Astor, Ernest Bevin, Harry Hopkins, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Brendan Bracken (new Minister of Information), several other members of the British Cabinet; 4) shook hands with some 1,200 leading Britons at a reception in her honor at the Savoy; 5) went to the movies with Anthony Eden* 6) interviewed a score of notables, from Czechoslovakia's Eduard Benes to Zionist Chaim Weizmann; 7) spoke at a fireman's dance...
Amid Laborite howls M.P. Hopkinson went on to call Labor Minister Ernest Bevin "an unskilled laborer,"* unfit to handle the complex problems of labor organization. Said Hopkinson: "The labor question has been grossly mishandled for the last twelve months. . . . The whole thing is chaos from top to bottom...
...Labor Leader Bevin used to drive a ginger-beer dray...
...power into his grasp, but then refuses to use it." He will "go to any length to avoid strikes. ... He has always preferred consultation to coercion." He has "unending patience in negotiations." Yet "he was one of the first among the leaders to recognize the threat of Fascism." Ernest Bevin does not like radical intellectuals. Neither, Author Strauss makes it clear, do radical intellectuals like Bevin. The fundamental difference between their doctrinaire attitude and that of "this fearsome-looking man, with the brusque voice and genius for brutal direct statement" is summed up in one incident...