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...questions was: Who was it who said, "Oh, to be in England"? A small cockney voice piped up: " 'itler said it." Of course TIME knows but possibly some of its readers may not recognize the quotation as the first line of Robert Browning's poem, Home-Thoughts From Abroad...
...favorite comedienne. Once a $1,000,000-a-year woman, she now pleads patriotic poverty. From 62 performances in the U. S. and Canada, she has turned over $130,000 to her country. Chorus from her hit song: We're going to 'ang old 'Itler from the very 'ighest bough of the biggest aspidistra in the world...
Bevin Up. The Chamberlain exit put into the all-powerful War Cabinet a patient, stubborn slab of a man named Ernest ("Give 'Itler 'Ell") Bevin. As the National Government's new Minister of Labor he has so ably unmuddled his department that his hold on the popular imagination is the greatest political phenomenon of the war. Built like a beer barrel, ungrammatically eloquent Bevin wedged himself into the revised Cabinet as the apex of pyramiding trade-union strength. No mere pub gabble was the talk of Bevin as "our next Prime Minister." However, there were no signs...
...Labor Ernest Bevin, the horny-handed General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union. The British public, sick of the leadership that had produced Munich and bumbled through eight months of war, took these men to its heart, became so wildly enthusiastic over the "give 'itler 'ell" speeches of Ernest Bevin that he is considered the best bet to be next Prime Minister. Whether he is or whether he is not, Britain is through with rule by its traditional ruling class...