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...even the Best People could help tony Evangelist Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman out of his latest difficulty. Plow-nosed, shark-chinned "Dr." Buchman's Oxford Group had run head on into the British Government in the person of blocky, slum-born Labor Minister Ernest Bevin...
When Minister Bevin announced last month that the Group's lay evangelists would not be exempted from military service, there was a great hubbub. To Laborite Bevin's defense sprang Crusader-Humorist Alan Patrick Herbert, Oxford University's Member in Parliament. To Oxonian Herbert the Oxford Group is a bee in the bustle. It riles him to think that Frank Buchman and his brash, eupeptic fishers among the up-&-outs* have the nerve to link themselves implicitly with the great Oxford Movements led by John Wesley and Cardinal Newman...
Like a thunderstorm, the row did not last. Last week Ernest Bevin stood before the House, told it that the Group was the only religious organization that had tried to claim an exemption. When he sat down, not a voice was raised. The Government's position was accepted without a vote...
...London Daily Herald, whose largest stockholder (49%) is TUC, made an investigation of its own, pooh-poohed the Bevin theory, warned that continued "drain of skilled men into the forces" is leaving gaping holes in war industry that cannot be plugged. Bawled Bevin, an old TU Congressman himself: "A paper that I helped to build-a working-class paper -is carrying on a nagging, quisling policy. ... I am disqusted with the business since I left...
There was a growing rumor that Bawler Bevin's Cabinet days were numbered, that Sir Walter Citrine would succeed him. The luxury of the quarrel between them seemed to many to have been justified as issue-clearing. Spreading rapidly throughout Britain was the conviction that, to keep Russia in the war, Britain must go all-out with the finest equipment to Russia, even at the expense of whittling down her home defense and pinching the army with which she hopes some day to invade the continent...