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Hace 3 días · Ernest Bevin (9 March 1881 – 14 April 1951) was a British statesman, trade union leader and Labour Party politician. He cofounded and served as General Secretary of the powerful Transport and General Workers' Union from 1922 to 1940 and served as Minister of Labour and National Service in the wartime coalition government.
Hace 2 días · But those who did look inside would have found the elegant signature of Ernest Bevin, a Labour foreign secretary, and those of five of his counterparts. The preamble, drafted in 1949 in a city ...
Hace 1 día · However, Jon Davis, director of the Strand Group, believes certain ministers could be identified as big beasts before the phrase existed. Clement Attlee always saw himself as primus inter pares in his Cabinet, lifted by the wartime ministerial experience of such giants as Ernest Bevin, Stafford Cripps and Herbert Morrison.
Hace 4 días · He is also an Honorary Professor at UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies, Ernest Bevin Associate Fellow in Euro-Atlantic Geopolitics with the Council on Geostrategy and a Senior Associate Fellow at RUSI, as well as a senior non-resident fellow at the Institute of International Relations Prague and an Associate Fellow of the Middle East Institute’s Frontier Europe programme.
Hace 1 día · The Minister of Labour and National Service, Ernest Bevin did much to improve working conditions, raising the wages of the lowest paid male workers, such as miners, railwaymen, and agricultural labourers, while also persuading and forcing employers, under threat of removal of their Essential Works Order, to improve company medical and welfare ...
Hace 6 días · A follower of Bevan and a future British prime minister, Harold Wilson, described Bevan as “a significant cabinet malcontent” in opposing prime minister Attlee and foreign secretary Ernest Bevin.
Hace 4 días · The 75th anniversary of the signing of the NATO treaty would prove an irresistible opportunity to promote the role of both states within “progressive realism”. For example, the Atlanticist spirit of Bevin was directly invoked during Lammy’s discussions on the “special relationship” with US counterpart Antony Blinken.
