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...Give 'Itler 'Ell!" was Ernie's motto when he joined Winston Churchill in the Coalition Cabinet in 1940. Like Winnie, but in his own Socialist way, Ernie seemed a reincarnation of John Bull. When Schoolmaster Attlee's Socialism supplanted Aristocrat Churchill's Toryism, it was Ernie rather than any of his more doctrinaire colleagues who symbolized Britain's New Order. But after he became Foreign Secretary, Bevin roared: "Everyone is expecting me to change our policy. They forget that facts never change...
...House of Commons, one of his colleagues on the Government bench dryly remarked: "He's picked up all of Eden's principles and dropped nothing but his aspirates." (Commoner Bevin still occasionally drops his aitches; during the war he whipped on his workers with "Give 'itler 'ell!") Different as Ernie Bevin is in manner and method from urbane Anthony Eden, and from all the kid-glove and silk-hat diplomats before him, he has not veered from Eden's course. He growled to a friend not long ago: "Everyone is expecting me to change...
...bites his toenails" ("It makes my blood run cold to hear him"), and keeps the most promising growth for "a long bite . . . after Church Parade." Slugging Private Alison dreams of a hand-to-hand fight-to-the-death between Churchill and Hitler ("Old Winnie breathes 'eavy, but 'itler breathes worse...
...morning during the worst of the blitz BBC's Gilliam parked a sound truck near a London shelter to record the comments of East Enders emerging after eight hours underground. A cocky cockney woman grabbed the microphone and said: "If 'itler thinks 'e can win this war by bombin' women and children, 'e's fahnd a big mistyke, that's all. Because we can tyke it, we can tyke it." According to Gilliam, the cockney woman's use of the phrase was the hit, became the popular answer to the blitz...
...said the Sweep, "and 'specially considerin' little old 'itler said we was military idiots. . . . Cor strike a light. If we'd 'ad any military sense at all we'd 'ave packed up in June...