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...Named to succeed the late Ernest Bevin as Foreign Secretary was this stalwart of Britain's Labor government...
Richard Rapier Stokes, Lord Privy Seal, succeeding the late Ernest Bevin; 54; a burly (225 Ibs.), good-humored, unconventional go-getter who once, when his trousers got soaked in the rain, attended an official conference in his drawers. Son of a lawyer, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, graduated with an engineering degree; entered Woolwich Royal Military Academy, saw service in France during World War I, won the rank of major; after the war, became a boilermaker; eventually headed the great British engineering firm of Ransomes & Rapier, Ltd. As the Labor government's Minister of Works...
...only to face another, deeply worrisome jigsaw puzzle: how to patch up the torn fabric of his Labor Party. He appointed new ministers (see box) to fill the posts left vacant by the rebellious resignations of Nye Bevan and Harold Wilson (TIME, April 30) and the death of Ernest Bevin. Then he tried to rally his followers against Left-Winger Bevan...
Thus, Labor might be forced to fight an election with many of last year's stalwarts absent:.Bevin dead, Bevan in opposition, Cripps very ill, and Attlee himself in sickbed. It might be the beginning...
Died. Ernest Bevin, 70, Lord Privy Seal in the British cabinet, before that for 5½ years Britain's Foreign Secretary; of a heart attack; in London (see FOREIGN NEWS...