Word: greenwood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
There is great mutual distrust between the Labor Party's middle-class politicians and official leaders, like Attlee and Greenwood, and Proletarians Ernest Bevin and Herbert Morrison. Another irritation is the distrust of both these factions for the leftists. Mrs. Strauss sees them all as so many Joys and Glooms. Among the Joys: Ellen Wilkinson, Sir Stafford Cripps ("affectionately" called "Christ and Carrots" Cripps because he is a vegetarian and "a deeply convinced Christian, although not a churchman"), Welsh Coal Miner M.P. Aneurin Bevan, John Strachey ("a big sleek black cat, with perfect manners and a feline ability...
...Arthur Greenwood, Minister of Post-War Reconstruction, has "a disconcerting ability to make impassioned speeches of which it is afterwards difficult to remember the content." "He gesticulates a great deal with loose wrists, so that one watches his hands fascinated, certain they will fly off his arms. . . ." Says Authoress Strauss: "Of his claim to near-greatness there is no question. . . . But indulging his passion for speaking at public meetings has debauched his mind...
Said Minister without Portfolio Arthur Greenwood: "Disunity, doubt and disillusionment are growing within the Reich...
...return it has every intention of blueprinting the peace. Its leaders, thanks to the war emergency, have vastly increased their political power. Therefore, the avowed aims and purposes of the British Labor Party, collected from recent statements and resolutions, make interesting reading. There are pronouncements by Laborites Arthur Greenwood, Herbert Morrison (Minister of Home Security), Philip Noel Baker, Clement Attlee, Hugh Dalton, Leonard Woolf and Harold Laski...