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...single man who would have the confidence both of Henry Ford and Roland Jay Thomas of the United Auto Workers? Would a labor man or a management man be tsar of defense? Only a couple of days before, Britain's Minister of Labor and National Service, Ernest Bevin, had been put in charge of all war production. It might happen here...
While Franklin Roosevelt again revised the U. S. defense setup by giving it a two-man head (see p. 21), Winston Churchill last week again revised Britain's setup. He made Labor Minister Ernest Bevin Chief of Production Executive, Supply Minister Sir Andrew Rae Duncan Chief of Import Executive, Minister Without Portfolio Arthur Greenwood, whose so-called Production Council has proved inadequate, he made Chief of [postwar] Reconstruction Executive. In Britain, as in the U. S., these changes were not wholly satisfying. Said the Laborite Daily Herald: "There is still no supreme high command of economic and industrial policy...
...there's another, and equally important, angle to the question, and one which people like Dr. Beard tend to forget: the political. The question boils down to, Would France have fought at all if Pierre Laval were premier? and the answer is obviously, No. Or again, Would Churchill, Bevin and Morison be in power in England now if England had declined to fight? Again, No. Who would have been? The same group that Laval represented in France; the determined enemies of every social reform; the gang which will always benefit by appeasement. In regard to the American situation, then, just...
Among other Europeans who had made their mark in 1940, one was short, squat General John Metaxas, Premier of the Greeks, who had made a monkey of Benito Mussolini. Another was Britain's Union Leader Ernest Bevin, who became a tower of strength in Britain's Government, who rallied Labor to Britain's cause, who became a symbol of the breakdown of class distinctions by which Britain achieved a new unity to fight her battle...
...expanded from a series of newspaper stories written by Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, editor of Manhattan's afternoon tabloid, PM. He flew to Britain last fall, spent two weeks listening to air-raid alarms, looking at shelters, talking with newsmen, firemen, doctors, pilots, officials -including Winston Churchill, Ernest Bevin. Then he flew home...