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...prewar building of 350,000 houses a year, Churchill said: "Hold onto your chairs. This is going to be one you don't like-two-thirds of those [houses] were built by private enterprise. Why have we not built houses? You can ask Mr. Attlee and Mr. Bevin and that great London hero Mr. Morrison, for if we are to blame, they are too." Mention of Labor's leaders sent the hecklers into a new frenzy. Said Churchill: "Another two minutes will be allowed for booing, if you'd like...
...prospective Prime Minister, the Labor Party picked amiable, colorless Clement Attlee, since a choice between strong-arm trade unionist Ernest Bevin and smart-policy exponent Herbert Morrison might split the Party. Ernest Bevin was tipped as prospective Foreign Secretary. Promptly he expounded Labor's foreign policy...
Labor will counter with "full socialism," i.e., immediate nationalization of the chief industries, state control of employment, housing, agriculture, social security. Its program will be emphatically put across by the Attlee-Bevin-Morrison-Greenwood quadrumvirate...
...Bevin Explains. Attentively the conference listened to influential, bull-necked Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labor: "The steps which have been taken in Greece are not the decisions of Mr. Churchill. They are the decisions of the Cabinet.. .. Russia undertook the main problem in Rumania. We undertook the main problem in Greece. . . . The British Government cannot abandon its position in the Mediterranean." Disregarding 20 trade-union resolutions denouncing Churchill outright, the conference passed a new one backing the Prime Minister but neatly shifting from Labor shoulders any public odium the Government might incur...
Rather than crack the Coalition at mid-invasion (and probably commit party suicide). Greenwood & Co. simply resolved not to vote. Labor Minister Ernest Bevin propelled his big bulk across the House floor, stopped in front of Greenwood Grated Bevin: "So you won't vote, eh?" Greenwood grinned at him, turned with a grin to the nearly 200 Laborites ranged behind him, sat tight. So did they. Once again, they were in revolt against their own leaders in the Government...