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nounced the Communist Party anc
its associates for having tolc
British workers in 1940-before
Russia entered the conflict-that
their nation was fighting ar
imperialistic war.
81 shall never forgive them fol
that to the day of my DEATH" he
vowed.
Reds Called Liars.
During the cold war period. Mr.
Bevin twice hurled @lie" at Rus
sian charges in the United Nations
Security Council that British
troops abroad were used to sup
press popular democratic move
ments.
In February, 1916, there was a
hot and heavy argument over
Russia's demand for the imme-
diate withdrawal of British troops
from Greece on the ground that
their presence there endangered
international peace. Bevin coun-
tered:
"Mr. Vishinsky (Andrei Vishin-
sky. the Soviet delegate) says that
our troops in Greece are protect
ing the Right tRightist elements)
I give the lie to that"
A few days later, Bevin replied
"lie" to q Ukrainian charge that
British soldiers were used to sup
press the national movement OF
the Indonesian people.
In the spring of 1949 Mr.. Bevin
came to the United States to sign
the North Atlantic Treaty, by
which II nations agreed to con-
front any Russian aggression with
a. united defense.
Our peoples do not want wal
and do not glorify war, but they
will not shrink from it if aggres-
sion is threatened" he said at
that time.
US. Praised.
Mr.. Bevin saw great advantage
in the close association between
the United States and Britain
Speaking at the annual Independ-
erlce Day dinner of the American
Society in London in 1947, he said /:
Thank You for defeating us
and producing as result the
wonderful United States of Amer
lea. You can have your Revolu-
ton. your Bunker Hills and your
Yorktowns. but nothing will ever
separate us now"
Before he became Foreign Sec
retary in Labor's sweep to power
In the 1915 British elections, MIR.
Bevin served for five years as
Minister of Labor in Prime Min
lister ChHehiil's eight-s1an coali-
ton war cabinet. He Modified the
ceuntry'si entire adult population
behind the war effort. That made
him national figure and he was
mentioned as a possibility for
Prime Minister.
King George VI once asked him
where he got his knowledge of
public affairs. Mr.. Bevin puckered
his powerful, fattish face and said
1T was gathered from the
hedgerows of experience"
His life was rich in experience.
He worked as a boy farmland,
dishwasher. page-boy, street car
conductor, cart driver, labor or
ganizer and union leader before
becoming one of Britain's most
important leaders.
Helped Pattern Changes.
AS Foreign Secretary, he helped
to pattern the changes that Prime
Minister Attlee'S Labor Govern
ment effected in the British Com
mondealth in the postwar years
changes that made India, Ceylon,
Burma and Palestine independent.
He visited the United States four
times as Foreign Secretary. Late
in 1916 and again last September
he was in New York when the
Council of Ministers met. He
made two trips to Washington in
1949-the first to sign the Atlantic
Pact and the second for vita.
monetary talks.
In September, 1850, he came to
New York for Big Three foreign
minister talks on bolstering West
Europe's defenses against Russia.
AS a labor leader, Mr.. Bevin
gained such success that he was
nick-named Napoleon of the
Trades Unions He started his
career as leader of an 8O0-man
union and subsequently fashioned
the Transport and General Work.
ers Union out of a loose fedora
ton of two score unions. 1t had
a membership of more than
100000.
In additional to his serious
physical ailments, Mr.. Bevin was
plagued by another painful,
although relatively minor one dur
ing his visit to Washington in
1949. He had a sad toothache,
The offending tooth was pulled
by DR.. Clement c. Alpert of 1851
New Hampshire avenue NV.
Later it was placed on exhibition
at the Armed Forces Institute OF
Pathology here because it had two
roots, something of an anomaly
for usually single-rooted eye tooth
Forcefui Speaker.
Before he fell i'll, Mr.. Bevin was
a rousing, rollicking speaker. He
was 203 pounds of harshness. He
was pontif1cal, vivid. Laborites
recalled that he relentlessly steam
rollered the aging pacifist, George
Lansbury, out of the leadership OF
the Labor Party in 1885.
Mr.. Bevin found himself in the
middle of bitter controversy
after a speech in the summer ot
l946 to the annual Labor Party
conference. In that speech hi
questioned the advisability of ad.
mitting 100000 Jews to Palestine
Immediately, as had been recon.
mended by an Anglo-Americar
committee Of inquiry. He sait
that would require another di.
vision of British troops. Then h,
y