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Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin called it "the most unsordid act of history." To Willy Brandt, speaking later as Chancellor of West Germany, it was "one of the strokes of providence of this century, a century that has not so very 'often been illuminated by the light of reason." It was launched upon the world in Harvard Yard just 30 years ago this week -in what was surely one of the most momentous commencement day speeches ever made. Sunshine tattered through the decorous elms as Harvard staged its first normal graduation exercises since the end of World...
Shaffer took time deciding to make the theater his career. Born in 1926, he and his twin Anthony (who wrote Sleuth) grew up in Liverpool. Their father, an Orthodox Jew, was a successful real estate broker. In 1944, both sons were conscripted to work in the mines. Under the Bevin plan, depleted mines were beefed up by youngsters chosen by ballot. "It was wicked work," recalls Shaffer. Later he went to Cambridge, where he toyed with the idea of writing, and then he and Anthony teamed up to turn out three detective novels, long since out of print. Peter drifted...
...thought of his Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, as a Mirabeau and an archmediocrity. He called the humane and thoughtful Hugh Gaitskell, Attlee's successor as party leader, a "desiccated calculating machine." Nye was, as Michael Foot amply documents, his own worst enemy-although, as Labor Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin once retorted, "Not while I'm alive...
Churchill quickly formed a National Government, including such men as Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, and Lord Beaverbrook. But it was Churchill him- self who told the world: "We shall go on to the end, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender...
...noblemen, and he has a pugnacious streak that his fragile air belies. In the Cabinet and the country at large, Home's blunt, hardheaded performance as Foreign Secretary has won him a degree of respect accorded to only one of his postwar predecessors, Labor's late Ernie Bevin. Remembering Churchill's innocence of economics and social problems, many politicians believed that Home-Sweet-Home, as Winston called him, could easily fill the same gaps in his experience...