Word: bevins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even the Best People could help tony Evangelist Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman out of his latest difficulty. Plow-nosed, shark-chinned "Dr." Buchman's Oxford Group had run head on into the British Government in the person of blocky, slum-born Labor Minister Ernest Bevin...
...paunched Labor Minister Ernest Bevin, backed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and a special committee that studied the question, shucked his recently acquired Carlton Grill manners to argue a blistering affirmative: more & more expert workers must be withdrawn from industry if the high operating efficiency of British aircraft and mechanized vehicles is to be maintained. Bawled Bevin: "Am I entitled to send a man up in a bomber without providing a journeyman to test the bomber and see that it is safe? No! It shall not be on my conscience that I risked a single airman's life...
...London Daily Herald, whose largest stockholder (49%) is TUC, made an investigation of its own, pooh-poohed the Bevin theory, warned that continued "drain of skilled men into the forces" is leaving gaping holes in war industry that cannot be plugged. Bawled Bevin, an old TU Congressman himself: "A paper that I helped to build-a working-class paper -is carrying on a nagging, quisling policy. ... I am disqusted with the business since I left...
There was a growing rumor that Bawler Bevin's Cabinet days were numbered, that Sir Walter Citrine would succeed him. The luxury of the quarrel between them seemed to many to have been justified as issue-clearing. Spreading rapidly throughout Britain was the conviction that, to keep Russia in the war, Britain must go all-out with the finest equipment to Russia, even at the expense of whittling down her home defense and pinching the army with which she hopes some day to invade the continent...
They are: 1) Conservative Lord Halifax; 2) Conservative Anthony Eden; 3) Liberal Sir Archibald Sinclair; 4) Conservative Sir Kingsley Wood; 5) Laborite Ernest Bevin; 6) Laborite Herbert Morrison; 7) Laborite Clement Attlee; 8) Laborite Albert Victor Alexander; 9) Conservative Lord Beaverbrook; 10) Laborite Sir Stafford Cripps; 11) Laborite Arthur Greenwood; 12) General Sir John Dill; 13) General Archibald Wavell; 14) King George...