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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...
...votes to 60, his colleagues declined to discipline Bevan for attacking the Labor Party's Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin and his tough anti-strike regulation (TIME, May 15). Instead, the party caucus proposed to let the whole thing die in committee. Chuckled unrepentant Nye Bevan: "If the Party executive [ruling committee] can keep it quiet at the [annual] Conference they will. But it'll have to come up ... and the rank and file won't let it pass...
Through it all, Bevin remained the Ernie of old-harsh-voiced, pontifical, given to great gusts of laughter and oratory. In the House of Commons bar at noontime he continued to drink as long as he had companions, before lunching alone on bread, cheese, beer. Last week Writer-Critic Harold Laski depicted the Bevin of 1944: "Mr. Bevin has never, since he emerged as a trade-union leader of importance, liked criticism, still less opposition. ... He is always certain that he is right. . . . Masterful in temper, obstinate in disposition, accustomed . . . to give orders which must be obeyed...
...Ernie Bevin, such tart criticism was beside the point. His task, getting tougher by the day, was still to keep British labor in battle line, and if possible to save himself while doing...