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...Churchill, the Conservative leader, is a strong backer of a European political union, he would probably be no more amenable to integrating Britain's economy with that of the rest of Western Europe than is the present cabinet. The only point on which the Tories have seriously attacked Ernest Bevin's foreign policy is the granting of independence to India and Burma, which could hardly be revised...
...over party decisions, quiet, little (5 ft. 7½ in., 140 Ibs.) Clem Attlee stood head & shoulders above his fellow Laborite leaders. This was true even though he lacked Aneurin Bevan's fiery eloquence, Herbert Morrison's parliamentary skill, Sir Stafford Cripps's brilliance and Ernest Bevin's command of the warm loyalty of millions of unionists. What Attlee did have was political balance and a sense of timing. These faculties were all-important as the Labor Party walked a tightrope with militant socialism on its left and a wary middle class on its right. Labor...
...foreign policy, Labor started with a blind bias toward Russia, but Attftfe and Bevin saw the menace of Russian aggression more quickly than President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes. It was Bevin's bearlike rush at the January 1946 U.N. meeting in London that woke the free world from its complacent friendliness to Russia. In this, Attlee and Bevin were a long way ahead of their party. Pro-Rursian sentiments among Laborites died slowly...
Thus bluntly defined was the problem of what the West might do for Asia. What could Asia do for the West? Ceylon made a gracious start. Buddhist priests at Kandy, learning that Bevin has a heart ailment, invited him to view the cherished relic of Buddha's tooth, which they say has curative powers. Usually the tooth is taken from its jeweled cases and exposed only once in seven years...
What with the conference harmony and the tooth-viewing, Bevin left Ceylon looking better than when he arrived...