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...uproar over the release from prison of Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley continued last week. Workers aimed their ire at Laborite Home Secretary Herbert Morrison, and Labor Minister Ernest Bevin was alarmed. He feared that the anger would 1) affect war production, 2) hurt the Labor Party in the next general election...
Laborite Ernest Bevin's big, powerful Transport and General Workers' Union resolved that freedom-for-Mosley indicated that "the Government is wavering in its adherence to the principles for which we are fighting." Morrison promptly broke his silence, chided T.G.W.U. for haste, and promised a full explanation to Parliament...
...major item in a minor Cabinet shift. Into Woolton's vacated place went handsome, plodding Colonel John Jestyn Llewellin, resident Minister in Washington in charge of supply. His Washington post will be taken by rugged "Big Ben" Smith, 64, ex-sailor, ex-dockworker, ex-organizer of Ernest Bevin's Transport and General Workers' Union. Ernest Brown, criticized for lack of imagination particularly in housing matters, was replaced as Minister of Health by hardworking Conservative Henry U. Willink, a King's Counsel who thus rose to Cabinet rank after only three years in Parliament. Brown moved into...
...busy day for King George VI. In rapid succession he received Field Marshal Smuts, the new Portuguese Ambassador, Ernest Bevin, Sir Alexander Cadogan (pronounced Ka-dug´-gan). But one of the longest audiences of the day was reserved for the sharp-eyed, thin-lipped commander of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Britain, Texas-born Ira Clarence Eaker...
...England, Labor Minister Ernest Bevin reportedly told an audience of 6,000 war-worker women, after an off-the-record speech, "Don't say anything to the press. I don't trust the press." The National Union of Journalists angrily demanded a retraction...