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Last year 260 men applied and were put on the waiting list. "They all found places," claimed Bevin, "they...
...Laborites who came up from the union ranks, like Ernest Bevin, or through local politics, like Clement Attlee, often feared and fought him; once they exiled him from the party for six years because the well-born intellectual continually leaned further left than his working-class colleagues. But they probably would never have carried their party to power without the tall (6 ft.), ascetic intellectual from the Cotswolds who ate nothing but nuts, raw fruits and vegetables (because of colitis picked up when he was an ambulance driver in World War I), preached from the pulpits of his beloved Anglican...
...Ernest Bevin...
...enjoyed better medical care (the Tories had to learn that false teeth and free specs aren't jokes to people grateful for them), but the government lived beyond its means. Even the doctrinaires learned that nationalization-cures nothing. The best of Labor's leaders died (like Ernie Bevin). wore themselves out (like Sir Stafford Cripps). or proved inadequate forthe highest tasks (like Herbert Morrison at the Foreign Office). Clement Attlee. conscientious and Christian, carried on-not an imposing figure. but a decent one. He was badgered by Tories in front of him, by crises and muddle around...
...already held up for 15 minutes. The prince rushed into the room in his general's uniform and drew himself stiffly to attention. "Dear Papa, dear maman" he burst out, "I'm terribly sorry. I couldn't help it. I had to stop to receive Acheson, Bevin and Schuman." The King nodded gravely, excused the boy and waved him to his seat...