Show W elj BRITISH LABOR PERSONA personalities LITIE S britaina Brit ains labor party which swept churchill out of office Is a strange mixture resembles the liberal branch of the democratic party more than any socialist movement it has its liberal and its amise conservative wings has had no labor troubles similar to ours during the past decade clement attlee baital britaina Brit ains ns new prime minister Is a poor man he was wai little known among the fashionable people of england until 1935 when his salary was raised to 2000 pounds a year after getting this pay boost mrs attlee was able to venture into society tor for the first time was able to start playing golf hire enough help to keep her home going attlee likes to putt putter ex in in his garden do odd jobs aroun around d the house constantly puffs a pipe I 1 is a sharp contrast to fiery charming ramsey rams e y macdonald En england glands a last las t labor prime minister attlee Is no forthright leader is considered more of 0 an impartial middle man will have all lie he can do to keep peace within his own widely split party Att attlies Attlee lees fl greatest rivals for power inside the party are paunchy jovial herbert morrison Morr lson and hard headed deep voiced testy ernest bevin morrison Morr lson lost his right eye when he was three days old has had a outlook ever since morrison has played runner up to attlee in many elections carries on constant behind the scenes warfare with bevin bevin had the same sam war job which sidney hillman took over in the after pearl harbor handling labor relations however bevin made a better go of it fought grimly and successfully for or better rations for workers morrison Is a cockney has a spry sense of humor likes to dance is head of the labor party in politically potent london he Is also a man of daring had the ancient tradition encrusted waterloo bridge torn down because he found it unserviceable afterward had traffic rolling more smoothly through the center ot of london morrison Morr lson Is a hard ruler bevin union boss ernie bevin is a hardheaded hard headed union boss he hates dictatorships but Is a dictator in his own union the giant transport workers B bevan evin runs his own un union 10 n like john L lewis runs the mine workers outside his union however bevins labor practices are more me like those of sidney hillman and phillip murray he believes in negotiation rather than strikes bevin took a bad trouncing from rom winston churchill in 1928 1926 has never forgiven the ex prime minister it was bevin who called the 1926 general era strike in england a strike which churchill dealt a shattering blow bevin is a forthright antl anti fascist was against hitler musso muss 0 lint and the cliveden set from their inception was responsible for or the tough minded position his party took internationally from 1933 to the outbreak of war As leader of the transport workers bevin controls considerable of the labor party Is rough on his enemies gruff with his friends rl ends losses his patience frequently to get et feminine support the new labor government will lean heavily on a redheaded red headed fiery labor MP ellen wilkinson miss wilkinson Is at home in a fight knows the world has contempt tor for britaina Brit ains colonial policies is a scrapper from the word go she knows about riots and bloodshed first hand was in the thick of the black and tan trouble in ireland even led hunger marchena mar chera on london during the depression miss wilkinson lives in the bohemian bloomsbury section of london surrounded by poets painters actors and writers has persuaded many of them to pitch into labors fight blunt and forthright miss wilkinson was the first member of parliament to de tend fend king edwards marrying amer lean ican born wallis simpson in one speech she said we say that it if a woman Is good enough to be a mans wile wife she Is good enough to take her side by him im as his equal in whatever rank of life iffe intended another powerful figure in the new attlee government will be tall sparse hard hardheaded headed arthur greenw greenwood cod recently minister of postwar reconstruction greenwood was responsible for what little slum slain clearance the Al macdonald acDonald government under tinder took A member of church ills cabinet greenwood Green wooi never w was a 3 known as a radical or a great liberal Is a seasoned bureaucrat reau crat at knows his way around government Is an able talker CAPITAL CHAFF 0 4 nelson rockefeller recently asked for or an appointment with cordell hull but hull refused to see him hull is a bitter ender regarding argentina and it was rockefeller who largely paved the way tor for argentine recognition C L mrs hope diamond 1 mclean mo mother ther in law of sen bob reynolds whom the scripps howard papers have been exposing Is making a play tor for new members of the truman cabinet some of them have been inveigled into her drawing draining dra iving room |