Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shadow of things to come-when the inevitable arrives in Washington-is already cast by manpower control in Britain. There the Ministry of Labor under Ernest Bevin disposes of all manpower-for both military service and industry. No British industry can exist today without the Labor Ministry's blessing: it has transferred workers to plants hundreds of miles away, puts them to work at new jobs. No worker can leave a war job, and no employer can fire a man, without the Ministry's permission. Britain has registered all men & women, classified them by skills and experience, decided...
When his country went to war, the youngest brother buckled down to business, patiently carried out his share of the duties prescribed by officialdom. For Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin he inspected factories and mines. For the Ministry of Home Security he visited groups of women knitters, admitted he was "quick with the needles, but not good." When the R.A.F. appointed him a welfare officer with the rank of Air Vice Marshal, he thought the station too high, arranged his demotion to Air Commodore...
...London Mary Welsh is likely to turn up for tea at Ambassador John Winant's austere flat -or arguing the Atlantic Charter with H. G. Wells-or eating fish pie in the Archbishop of Canterbury's sombre palace. You might find her talking with Labor Minister Ernest Bevin at the Trade Union Club-playing tennis with Ronald Tree of the Information Ministry-dining at the Savoy with Hore-Belisha. . . . She is probably the only woman who ever appeared at a formal Cliveden dinner in a tricked-up red bathrobe. (She had left all her clothes in Paris when...
With these words Britain's Laborite M.P. Aneurin Bevan (not to be confused with Labor Minister Ernest Bevin) last week went to the defense of freedom of the press in Britain. In the same debate in the House of Commons many another pungent word was spoken, for the fact was-and Britain was awakening to it-that wartime freedom of the press in the English-speaking world was now actually, openly and seriously threatened...
...Britain's leaders that Winant had been sent; it was to them that he plugged away at his theme of a democratic post-war world. He had long talks with Winston Churchill; met Anthony Eden several times a week; consulted labor leader Ernest Bevin; became fast friends with such Britons as Author-Professor Harold J. Laski, Sir Stafford Cripps, Press Lords Camrose and Kemsley, the WVS's Dowager Marchioness of Reading, one of England's most influential women...