Here’s a yellow flag, waved in a friendly spirit, in respect of Britain’s new foreign minister, David Lammy. He seems like a fine fellow. The Atlantic’s famed foreign correspondent, Anne Applebaum, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For 18 long years, beginning with World War II and continuing through the Labor government austerity that followed the peace, British trade unions have generally cooperated with the government in an ...

Whenever David Lammy ascended the grand staircase leading up to the Foreign Secretary’s office, he would have passed the bust ...

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 ...

Clement Attlee is going to fire some of his ministers. For both it would be a painful business. For him, it would mean the first break in the group of old friends and party comrades with whom he ...

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 ...

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, ...

A British soldier stumbles exhausted across a desolate landscape, his right arm in a sling, his forehead bandaged. In his left hand he carries laurel leaves with the label: “victory and peace in ...