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 ...

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 ...

Winston Churchill, looking for big men for the big job of boosting Great Britain’s war-industries output, picked shovel-blunt, beefy Ernest Bevin to be his Minister of Labor. Ever since he had fought ...

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 ...

So long as his nation wins battles, a nation’s wartime leader can usually face down any sort of home opposition. It is different when battles are regularly lost. Last week it was fast becoming ...

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 ...

The sober, somber Council chamber was filled with the sounds of waiting: the hum-buzz of bored conversation in the gallery, the deep, snoozy breathing of weary spectators who had fallen asleep, ...

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 ...

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 ...