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When Tillet was head of Bristol's potent Dockers' Union he met young Ernest Bevin (now Minister of Labor), gave him his first union job and became the strongest influence in his life. After the abdication of his good friend the Duke of Windsor he said: "I regret that that great little gentleman did not let fly ... and tell us just what the bishops and politicians, who hounded him from public life, were pressing...
Patricia Strauss (Bevin & Co., TIME, July 7, 1941) might well have taken these words as the starting point for her valuable, fact-filled, respectful biography of Cripps. Long a worker within the British Labor Party and the wife of an ardent Crippsian (G. R. Strauss, Labor M.P. for North Lambeth), Author Strauss tries to show that the very lack of "finesse" and "political acumen" is what has made Cripps the hope of thousands of Englishmen. It is a position, she says, that he would lose only if "they came to suspect, even mistakenly, that he had lost his political naivete...
...shadow of things to come-when the inevitable arrives in Washington-is already cast by manpower control in Britain. There the Ministry of Labor under Ernest Bevin disposes of all manpower-for both military service and industry. No British industry can exist today without the Labor Ministry's blessing: it has transferred workers to plants hundreds of miles away, puts them to work at new jobs. No worker can leave a war job, and no employer can fire a man, without the Ministry's permission. Britain has registered all men & women, classified them by skills and experience, decided...
When his country went to war, the youngest brother buckled down to business, patiently carried out his share of the duties prescribed by officialdom. For Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin he inspected factories and mines. For the Ministry of Home Security he visited groups of women knitters, admitted he was "quick with the needles, but not good." When the R.A.F. appointed him a welfare officer with the rank of Air Vice Marshal, he thought the station too high, arranged his demotion to Air Commodore...
...London Mary Welsh is likely to turn up for tea at Ambassador John Winant's austere flat -or arguing the Atlantic Charter with H. G. Wells-or eating fish pie in the Archbishop of Canterbury's sombre palace. You might find her talking with Labor Minister Ernest Bevin at the Trade Union Club-playing tennis with Ronald Tree of the Information Ministry-dining at the Savoy with Hore-Belisha. . . . She is probably the only woman who ever appeared at a formal Cliveden dinner in a tricked-up red bathrobe. (She had left all her clothes in Paris when...