Word: bevins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neither the training nor the heart for the prancing and posturing of a high-stepping hackney. Like the farmers' dray horses that hauled their loads through the cobbled streets of the Somerset village where he was born to bitter poverty in 1881, big, bluff, tough Ernie Bevin had spent his life with his shoulders hard against the traces, his eyes ahead and his back braced for the long pull...
...Ernie Bevin had shouldered his 250-lb. bulk up to the chairmanship of Britain's Trades Union Congress, the top spot in British labor. At high council tables he used plain, blunt, carefully thought-out words and facts like clenched fists to pummel his opponents...
...Socialist way, Ernie seemed a reincarnation of John Bull. When Schoolmaster Attlee's Socialism supplanted Aristocrat Churchill's Toryism, it was Ernie rather than any of his more doctrinaire colleagues who symbolized Britain's New Order. But after he became Foreign Secretary, Bevin roared: "Everyone is expecting me to change our policy. They forget that facts never change...
...turned the country against them-the health program, for example, is highly popular-but a reluctant awareness that the Socialists are just not up to the job as men and as administrators. They have only five first-rate men, and of these five, two-Sir Stafford Cripps and Ernest Bevin-are all but out. (The Attlee-Bevin friendship is the only genuine top-level friendship in the party; the others eye one another distrustfully...
Appraisal: As Foreign Secretary, Morrison will probably keep Britain on the course set by his onetime bitter rival and recent friend Ernest Bevin. Morrison, a cagey leader, will do nothing to divide the Labor Party-and this may be his greatest weakness in a time when Britain needs a more vigorous foreign policy. Above all other considerations, he wants Labor to stay in office. Morrison quips: "Maybe I wasn't born to rule, but I've got used...