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...British Empire stands physically and ideologically in the path of Russian expansion. Last week Foreign Secretary Ernie Bevin rose massively from the Government bench in the House of Commons to define, in two memorable statements, his position toward Russia and toward the Empire...
...Bevin meant both statements. Yet they could be in apparent conflict if the Russians chose to press upon the internally weakened Empire. As Bevin spoke, the Empire was creaking in a high wind-and its troubles had a direct connection with Russian pressures. Prime Minister Clement Attlee told Parliament that "leftwing elements and Communists" had fanned the Bombay mutiny. Whether they had or not, Russia's championship of dependent peoples at UNO had obviously aggravated widespread colonial unrest...
...Friendly Neighbors." Grave, greying Anthony Eden gave Bevin the full backing of the Conservatives. Bevin had more challenges from the 40-odd Labor backbenchers who think he is too harsh on Russia than he got from the Tory opposition. He answered them by wheeling round to face his own side of the House as he said: "You cannot carry out a foreign policy on a very narrow and limited basis, neither can you alter history by a slogan...
...bomb. Britain's first and only general strike in 1926, the nearest it had come to violent revolution in a century (and it was not very close), had shocked the easygoing Baldwin Government into banning political strikes. For all Labor, and especially for a bellicose trades unionist named Bevin, the Act was a standing insult...
Cheers & Jeers. Ernie landed a haymaker. "If ever there was a class act, it was this one." The rafters rang with Labor cheers. Bevin's jowls quivered with anger and excitement. Ignoring the Speaker, he yelled at Tories across the aisle: "You deliberately endeavored to destroy the economic and political power of the working man. You would do it again if you had the chance...