Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor will counter with "full socialism," i.e., immediate nationalization of the chief industries, state control of employment, housing, agriculture, social security. Its program will be emphatically put across by the Attlee-Bevin-Morrison-Greenwood quadrumvirate...
...Bevin Explains. Attentively the conference listened to influential, bull-necked Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labor: "The steps which have been taken in Greece are not the decisions of Mr. Churchill. They are the decisions of the Cabinet.. .. Russia undertook the main problem in Rumania. We undertook the main problem in Greece. . . . The British Government cannot abandon its position in the Mediterranean." Disregarding 20 trade-union resolutions denouncing Churchill outright, the conference passed a new one backing the Prime Minister but neatly shifting from Labor shoulders any public odium the Government might incur...
Rather than crack the Coalition at mid-invasion (and probably commit party suicide). Greenwood & Co. simply resolved not to vote. Labor Minister Ernest Bevin propelled his big bulk across the House floor, stopped in front of Greenwood Grated Bevin: "So you won't vote, eh?" Greenwood grinned at him, turned with a grin to the nearly 200 Laborites ranged behind him, sat tight. So did they. Once again, they were in revolt against their own leaders in the Government...
Britain's Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin said: ". . . We are broke. It is no use beating around the bush; we have spent everything and I am glad we have...
Revolutionary? The White Paper is a basic undertaking. It attacks problems fundamental to democracies. It is not a one-man brain wave: the British Treasury and Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin helped frame it. Last week, the Daily Herald (labor) called it a "revolutionary manifesto." But if it were, it could only be such because of its new assumptions of the responsibilities of democracies. Financially, it is conservative...