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...paunched Labor Minister Ernest Bevin, backed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and a special committee that studied the question, shucked his recently acquired Carlton Grill manners to argue a blistering affirmative: more & more expert workers must be withdrawn from industry if the high operating efficiency of British aircraft and mechanized vehicles is to be maintained. Bawled Bevin: "Am I entitled to send a man up in a bomber without providing a journeyman to test the bomber and see that it is safe? No! It shall not be on my conscience that I risked a single airman's life...
...Winston Churchill; TIME, Nov. 4) described this crucial compromise in terms of the men who made it and who now rule wartime England. Some of them have been written up before. "Cato" mauled the Tories in his Guilty Men (TIME, Sept. 30). Patricia Strauss cleverly clawed the Laborites in Bevin and Co. (TIME, July 7). Rene Kraus's book mauls nobody, is the first book to line up for biographical inspection all of the 14 men who Kraus believes are "the men around Churchill...
They are: 1) Conservative Lord Halifax; 2) Conservative Anthony Eden; 3) Liberal Sir Archibald Sinclair; 4) Conservative Sir Kingsley Wood; 5) Laborite Ernest Bevin; 6) Laborite Herbert Morrison; 7) Laborite Clement Attlee; 8) Laborite Albert Victor Alexander; 9) Conservative Lord Beaverbrook; 10) Laborite Sir Stafford Cripps; 11) Laborite Arthur Greenwood; 12) General Sir John Dill; 13) General Archibald Wavell; 14) King George...
...first half of her two weeks' stay she 1) addressed the nation over BBC; 2) spoke in the House of Commons in person; 3) ate meals with Winston Churchill, Lady Astor, Ernest Bevin, Harry Hopkins, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Brendan Bracken (new Minister of Information), several other members of the British Cabinet; 4) shook hands with some 1,200 leading Britons at a reception in her honor at the Savoy; 5) went to the movies with Anthony Eden* 6) interviewed a score of notables, from Czechoslovakia's Eduard Benes to Zionist Chaim Weizmann; 7) spoke at a fireman's dance...
...Labor Leader Bevin used to drive a ginger-beer dray...