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...comfort! Comfort and exhort! . . . Up rises our old friend, Mr. A. V. Alexander of the Admiralty to tell us that all's well and the Navy's there. Then, optimism breaking out like a rash over the face of the press, his ever-loving colleague, Mr. Ernie Bevin . . . has to come clattering down like a load of bricks on our heads to tell us that we're too complacent and that times are going to get even tougher. Now if Alex and Ernie could only arrange to make a bookkeeping entry instead of a newspaper story, thus...
...behalf of Winston Churchill's coalition Government, a special Cabinet Committee, including Laborites Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin and Herbert Morrison, drew up the resolution for debate. This document recommended the Beveridge Plan as "a valuable aid in determining the lines on which developments and legislation should be pursued as part of the Government's policy of postwar reconstruction," but seemed to promise very little specific action...
Britons last week got an idea of the reception that the Beveridge Plan for social reform may soon meet in Parliament. Up in the House of Commons was a Catering Bill introduced by hornyhanded Labor Minister Ernest Bevin. A restaurant worker before he became a dock worker, Bevin asked for a commission to investigate the catering business from top to bottom, then recommend any necessary reforms...
Britain's catering industry employs 500,000 workers, who put in 7 2-hour weeks and earn as little as $10 per month. Said Bevin: "I need [the bill] for the war ... in the interests of public morale. ... I need it for the transition period. . . . Our people have had no holiday, no rest, no recuperation since the war broke out. ... I need it for the postwar period to [help] solve mass unemployment ... it is a bill small in character but great in potentialities...
...talk with the Archbishop of Canterbury (he has a laugh that rattles windows)-or knows the inside of H. G. Wells' house near Regent's Park (he likes to play charades, brags about his diabetes)-or what it is like to dine with Labor Minister Ernest Bevin at the Trades Union Club (he drops cigaret ashes on his front, wears colored shirts, talks about crossing carrier pigeons with parrots so they can deliver verbal messages...