Word: bevins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Empire stands physically and ideologically in the path of Russian expansion. Last week Foreign Secretary Ernie Bevin rose massively from the Government bench in the House of Commons to define, in two memorable statements, his position toward Russia and toward the Empire...
...Ernie Bevin had been spoiling for this fight for 20 years. In the House of Commons canteen he gulped a cup of hot coffee and an unbuttered bun. Then he slumped down on his front bench to wait for the bell...
...bomb. Britain's first and only general strike in 1926, the nearest it had come to violent revolution in a century (and it was not very close), had shocked the easygoing Baldwin Government into banning political strikes. For all Labor, and especially for a bellicose trades unionist named Bevin, the Act was a standing insult...
Cheers & Jeers. Ernie landed a haymaker. "If ever there was a class act, it was this one." The rafters rang with Labor cheers. Bevin's jowls quivered with anger and excitement. Ignoring the Speaker, he yelled at Tories across the aisle: "You deliberately endeavored to destroy the economic and political power of the working man. You would do it again if you had the chance...
Harold Laski, British Labor's international problem child, got hit by another spitball, but went right on reciting. Conservative M.P. Cyril Osborne urged Parliament to send beefy Ernest Bevin to the U.S. to offset waspish Laski's influence. Declared Osborne: let the Government "keep some of their wandering minstrels from the London School of Economics at home." Minstrel Laski's proposal of the week: let the U.S. relax international tension right now by destroying its atomic bomb stockpile...