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 ...

On May 22, 1940 the British Parliament passed an Emergency Powers Defense Act giving the Government full control over everybody and everything. As Minister of Labor, horny-handed Ernest Bevin could ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a New York Times story about aspeech of Britain’s Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin at Paris was the statement: “It must always be kept in mind that Mr. Bevin . . . is talking not only for Great ...

When King Farouk of Egypt called for cancellation of the Anglo-Egyptian treaty of alliance he probably intended only to please his subjects, who were then engaged in their national pastime of baying ...