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 Ernest Bevin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bevin's principal failure was in the British Mandated Territory of Palestine, where he opposed the plans of the Zionist movement to create a Jewish state.
Ernest Bevin (9 March 1881 - 14 April 1951), British labour leader, politician, and statesman, was born in a small village in Somerset, England.
Shortly after his appointment Bevin was elected unopposed to the House of Commons for a London constituency.
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 Bevin, Ernest on Encyclopedia.com
Ernest Bevin: Robert Pearce examines the career of the man who was successively trade union leader, Minister of Labour and Foreign Secretary.
BEVIN, ERNEST [Bevin, Ernest], 1881-1951, British labor leader and statesman.
From 1925 to 1940 he sat on the general council of the Trade Union Congress, serving as chairman in 1937.
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 Ernest Bevin Biography / Biography of Ernest Bevin Biography
Ernest Bevin was born on March 9, 1881, in Bristol, the son of poor, working-class parents.
After the war Bevin served as secretary of state for foreign affairs (1945-1951) and was lord privy seal for a brief period in 1951.
Perhaps this accolade springs from surprise that Bevin, a Labour minister, did not depart radically from traditional British policies in foreign affairs.
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 Ernest Bevin
British politician Ernest Bevin started his career in politics as an official of the Docker's Union.
Ernest Bevin : Unskilled Labourer and World Statesman.
In 1940, he entered the war cabinet as Labor Secretary.
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 Ernest Bevin
Bevin was defeated when he represented the Labour Party at Gateshead in the 1931 General Election.
Bevin successfully achieved mobilization of Britain's workforce and became one of the most significant members of Churchill's war cabinet.
A powerful figure at meetings of the War Cabinet was Ernest Bevin.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUbevin.htm   (2136 words)

  
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The referral Objections about the proposed admission arrangements of Ernest Bevin College (“Ernest Bevin”) for the school year commencing September 2001 (“the arrangements”) have been referred to me by the governors of Honeywell Schools (“Honeywell”) and by a group of eligible parents.
Preliminary matters Procedure: I have before me the objections from Honeywell governors and from parents; the responses from the LEA and subsequent correspondence from Honeywell governors, parents and the LEA as the admission authority for Ernest Bevin, all of which have been copied to relevant parties.
The LEA states that 44% of the school live in the same post code as the school.
http://www.schoolsadjudicator.gov.uk/upload/ADA000143-147_-_Ernest_Bevin.doc   (1998 words)

  
 CNN Cold War - Profile: Ernest Bevin
He resigned March 10, 1950, was appointed Lord Privy Seal in Attlee's government and died April 14, 1951, at home of a heart attack at age 70.
In July 1945, he became Prime Minister Clement Attlee's foreign minister and went with Attlee to the Allies' final conference at Potsdam (July 17-August 2, 1945).
During World War II, Prime Minister Winston Churchill asked him to join the war cabinet as minister of labor to organize the country's manpower (1940).
http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/bevin   (215 words)

  
 BBC NEWS Programmes Politics Show West: Ernest Bevin
Bevin rose rapidly through the Labour movement, and in the war Churchill asked him to join his cabinet as Minister of Labour.
The trams, some cafes, then a job as a carter in the docks were his workplace, and his education.
It underlies his contemporary appeal: he may be dead 50 years, but his achievements are with us still.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/politics_show/3257534.stm   (499 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Ernest Bevin
In 1945 Bevin became secretary of state for foreign affairs in the Labour cabinet of Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
Ernest Bevin (1881-1951), British labor leader and statesman, born in Winsford, England.
A prominent member of the Labour Party, in 1940, he joined the coalition cabinet of Prime Minister Winston Churchill as minister of labor and national service; he was in charge of the mobilization of human and national resources throughout World War II (1939-1945).
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 Amazon.co.uk: Ernest Bevin: Books
Ernest Bevin in his own right was a first class politician and could show the key political players today a thing or two.
Bullock in the preface states a valid point that Bevin's role in history has been somewhat forgotten in recent years.
Alan Bullock provides a fascinating insight into the experience of not only Ernest Bevin as a British Foreign Secretary during the years 1945-51, but also of the Labour party in government during those years.
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 ERNEST BEVIN - CARICATURE SIGNED
Bevin resigned because of ill health in 1951, five weeks before his death.
During WWII, Bevin successfully achieved mobilization of Britain's workforce and became one of the most significant members of Churchill's War Cabinet.
In May 1940, British Prime Minister Churchill invited Ernest Bevin to become Minister of Labour in his coalition government.
http://www.galleryofhistory.com/archive/5_2002/leaders/ERNEST_BEVIN.htm   (211 words)

  
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Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition Harvard Historical Studies No 132.
Ernest Bevin : Unskilled Labourer and World Statesman 1881-1951.
Ernest A. Savage: Librarian Extraordinary (225P) (Library Association Centenary Volume).
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 A Catalogue of the papers of the Transport and General Workers' Union: Ernest Bevin
Although Bevin served on this delegation the only records surviving here are: a telegram informing his secretary of the date of his return; report of the delegation [cmnd 2833 of 1927].
Reports by Bevin on the progress of amalgamation.
Duplicated draft report, typescript amendments by Bevin, typescript reservations on the final report by Bevin.
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/ead/126eb.htm   (3984 words)

  
 ERNEST BEVIN - ALBUM LEAF SIGNED 04/17/1944
He was Minister of Labor and National Service (1940-1945) and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1945-1951), largely responsible for the 1949 NATO treaty.
In 1922, British labor leader Ernest Bevin negotiated the merger of 14 unions into the Transport and General Workers' Union and became General Secretary.
http://www.galleryofhistory.com/archive/6_2003/leaders/ERNEST_BEVIN.htm   (143 words)

  
 About Bristol - Famous People - Ernest Bevin
During the Second World War he became a member of Churchill's Cabinet and was made Minister of Labour and National Service.
Ernest Bevin was born in 1881 in Winford, near Bristol.
In 1921 Bevin was involved in setting up the Transport and General Workers' Union and became the first Secretary to the organisation.
http://www.about-bristol.co.uk/fam-12.asp   (140 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Ernest Bevin : a biography
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Find in a Library: Ernest Bevin : a biography
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Bevin Ernest
Bevin, Ernest (1881-1951), one of Britain’s greatest trade union leaders, an impressive Minister of Labour during World War II and a formidable...
This obituary for Ernest Bevin appeared in The Times on April 16, 1951.
MSN Encarta - Search Results - Bevin Ernest
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 Student and scholarly
Ernest Bevin and the Foreign Office, 1932-1969 by Roderick Barclay.
Sinews of War - Bevin and the Unions http://www.iwm.org.uk/online/sinews/bevin.htm
Ernest Bevin : Foreign Secretary 1945-1951 by Alan Bullock.
http://members.aol.com/BevinSoc/scholarly.htm   (276 words)

  
 GEORGE VI ERNEST BEVIN Autograph
ERNEST BEVIN (1881-1951) was British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1945-1951.
He was succeeded by his daughter as Queen Elizabeth II.
He played an important role in the acceptance of the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO and Britain's decision to develop nuclear weapons.
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 Search Results for Ernest Bevin - Encyclopædia Britannica
Special feature by New York Times on the American author, Ernest Hemingway.
Includes articles, slide show of his life and times, audio clips of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, and reviews of his books and biographies.
The Zionist goal of Jewish statehood was violently opposed by the local Arab leaders, who saw the Ottoman defeat as an opportunity either to create their own state or to join a larger Arab...
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 The Ernest Bevin Society
E-mail and links to other sites associated with The Ernest Bevin Society
Back in the 1970s, a system that had run very well for a quarter of a century was in deep trouble.
The Ernest Bevin Society took a different line.
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 Ernest Rutherford - definition of Ernest Rutherford in Encyclopedia
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM, FRS (August 30, 1871 - October 19, 1937), called "father" of nuclear physics, pioneered the orbital theory of the atom notably in his discovery of rutherford scattering off the nucleus with his gold foil experiment.
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 Ernest Bevin Quotes
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 Ernest Bevin (1881-1951), Trade unionist and politician
A hugely influential trade union leader and from 1940 a Labour MP, Bevin was Minister of Labour and National Service in Churchill& War Cabinet (1940-5).
National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London WC2H OHE.
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 Ernest Bevin - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter
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 Amazon.com: Ernest Bevin: A Biography: Books: Alan Bullock
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