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BRITISH LABOUR'S RISE TO POWER- Carl F. Brand- Stanford ($3.50). BEVIN AND Co.-Patricia Strauss-Putnam...
...Labor's present Cabinet ministers-Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison, Clement Attlee, Arthur Greenwood, Hugh Daiton, who did the expelling -Wife Strauss wastes little comradely affection. Bevin and Co. has the refreshing frankness, some of the stylistic verve of a good family fight...
Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin, who at his advent last year was widely saluted as a squarejawed, horny-handed son of toil who would assure tough, down-to-earth Governmental selfcriticism, was silent except for a two-minute talk on unemployment insurance. The only lengthy criticism was directed at Britain's tight press and radio censorship...
Last week some Britons found a wry symbolism in the fact that Labor Minister Bevin had taken to lunching among the well-heeled Conservatives at the swank Carlton Grill. Said the acute New Statesman & Nation...
...Bevin, a man of great reputation and full of character, came fresh to a Cabinet office and to the House. In an office which more than any other except the Prime Minister's requires ruthless determination to achieve his ends, even at the cost of his own popularity, Bevin seems too concerned with his own popularity and not clear enough in the lead he should give to labor. He has given vent to occasional outbursts against employers on the floor of the House, but he is very cautious about giving them orders, even on vital matters affecting production...