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...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...
Public demands for other cabinet changes went unfulfilled. Old Battler Ernie Bevin had become too ill to carry on the burden of Britain's foreign affairs. And a barrage of criticism was hitting War Secretary John Strachey, who, as Minister of Food, had made a complete failure of the African groundnuts scheme, which was designed to get cooking fat for austerity Britain. Even the Labor government had to admit last week that the scheme had failed, at a dead loss to the British taxpayer of $109 million. There was no reason to believe that Strachey would be any better...
Chivalry in war is a rapidly declining convention, but it dies hardest among what Ernest Bevin has called the "trade union of generals." Field Marshal Auchinleck, in a foreword to the book, salutes Rommel "as a soldier and a man" and deplores the passing of chivalry. Field Marshal Earl Wavell rates him "among the chosen few, among the very brave, the very true." And Biographer Young rather gratuitously remarks that he just can't help liking German generals. His Rommel is well-written, brisk, and touched with flashes of nice humor; in every other respect, it might have been...
...Assistant Secretary of State George McGhee tried to convey U.S. concern to Whitehall. The British politely pointed out to him that they had long experience in dealing with the Iranians, and that was that. An attempt by Secretary of State Dean Acheson to raise the issue with Foreign Secretary Bevin during the latter's recent visit to New York was equally fruitless. The British Foreign Secretary hinted to Acheson that the Iranians could not be so desperate for money, otherwise they would be more anxious to accept the new terms...