Word: bevins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over party decisions, quiet, little (5 ft. 7½ in., 140 Ibs.) Clem Attlee stood head & shoulders above his fellow Laborite leaders. This was true even though he lacked Aneurin Bevan's fiery eloquence, Herbert Morrison's parliamentary skill, Sir Stafford Cripps's brilliance and Ernest Bevin's command of the warm loyalty of millions of unionists. What Attlee did have was political balance and a sense of timing. These faculties were all-important as the Labor Party walked a tightrope with militant socialism on its left and a wary middle class on its right. Labor...
Last week as the ministers ended six days of sessions, Bevin was reminded again of his union days. Summing up what the Ceylon conference had accomplished, he said that his followers used to ask if anything ever got done at trade union conferences. Bevin would reply: "We meet all our old pals. We remain pals...
Britain's Ernest Bevin was tired and blue around the gills when he came ashore at Colombo, Ceylon to attend the Commonwealth Foreign Ministers Conference. "I can't stand this climate," said Bevin. "It's like August bank holiday on Hampstead Heath." His hosts arranged to have him carried in a sedan chair with four strong bearers. Said a friend to Bevin: "You are using a means of transportation which your old union* would not approve...
Thus bluntly defined was the problem of what the West might do for Asia. What could Asia do for the West? Ceylon made a gracious start. Buddhist priests at Kandy, learning that Bevin has a heart ailment, invited him to view the cherished relic of Buddha's tooth, which they say has curative powers. Usually the tooth is taken from its jeweled cases and exposed only once in seven years...
What with the conference harmony and the tooth-viewing, Bevin left Ceylon looking better than when he arrived...