Word: bevinism
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...know that orders have been issued-preparatory to Hitler making a peace offer -to the Communists of the country to disturb meetings," said Minister Bevin. "I know very well that you have been instructed to try to create the impression that the working class of this country is disunited. You have started it-but I don't think it will work...
Last fortnight big Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labor and strong man of the British trades-union movement, rushed to Scotland for a string of speeches against Communism. The working-class districts of Glasgow and Edinburgh are the noisiest in Britain, and there Orator Bevin was fiercely heckled by workers, who jumped up at his meetings and gave the Communist clenched-fist salute. In his roaring rebuttals Big Ernie went further than any other present British Cabinet member to speak his mind about Communism...
...Cornerstone of the new structure is Britain's one big union, the Trades Union Congress, of which aitchless Labor Minister Ernest Bevin ("Britain's Next Prime Minister" to his friends) is the dominating figure. Chairman of T. U. C. is Ernest Bevin's good friend George Gibson, who used to be a male nurse in an insane asylum. Last week ex-Nurse Gibson inducted into T. U. C. its first and only royal honorary member, His Majesty King George...
...very spirit of Britain, while Beaverbrook is spoken of with awe as something between a magician and an avalanche. . . . But there is another man, neither Liberal nor Tory, who . . . would demand the right to lead the nation now if Churchill were liquidated by a German bomb. . . . Mr. Ernest Bevin, former farmer's boy, self-educated boss of the Trade Union movement, and Minister of Labor is a strong man. . . . All three are forceful, tireless, fearless, arrogant, patriotic and stubborn." "And now," wrote Beaver's 19th Century Baxter, "as the guns won't stop, I shall. The fire...
Chief concern of Labor was that thus far its achievements were patchwork, that except for Bevin, its leaders were not strong enough to deal with the firmly entrenched Conservative Party. With parliamentary representation frozen for the duration at 165 Laborites to 370 Conservatives, Laborites feared that the Tories were up to their centuries-old tactics of absorbing the Opposition with the end in view of crushing...