Plain-spoken, pragmatic, and often blunt, Bevin’s innate intelligence, tremendous work ethic, and strong leadership skills made him one of the most influential political figures of the first half of ...

Ernest Bevin, the bull elephant of British labor, last week sat bulkily silent, beadily watchful, in the back row at a caucus of Parliament’s Laborite members. The proposal: to expel from the Party ...

Bulky, bossy Ernest Bevin, British to the bone, considers himself more of a proletarian than Molotov. Last week Laborite Bevin became the first official spokesman of a great power to advocate a world ...

Ailing Ernest Bevin set off on the Queen Mary last week to be present in Washington at the solemn signing of the North Atlantic pact. Before he left Britain, speaking in the House of Commons, Bevin ...

Britain’s Ernest Bevin was tired and blue around the gills when he came ashore at Colombo, Ceylon to attend the Commonwealth Foreign Ministers Conference. “I can’t stand this climate,” said Bevin. “It ...

The author of an admirable life of Hitler here turns to an infinitely more attractive subject. This first volume is confined to Bevin's career as a trade-union leader from 1910 to 1940, years in which ...

British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin’s recent remarks on Palestine were criticized by Dr. Chaim Weizmann as tending to promote further instability in Palestine, in an address delivered here last ...

Fifteen months ago Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin was full of pith and vinegar. In the House of Commons his strong voice rasped: “I will stake my political future on solving this [the Palestine] ...