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  • Less laudably he made sure that, in Bevin's phrase, there would be "an atomic bomb with a union jack on it".

    Attlee: A Life in Politics by Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds 2010

  • The BBC is indeed utterly disgusting, but that is not Bevin's doing.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Mr. Bevin's statement was a proposal for marriage, not a design for living.

    United Europe 1948

  • Bevin's speech received one of the greatest ovations ever heard in an Assembly session.

    The Threat to World Freedom 1948

  • You may like Mr. Ernest Bevin's recommendation with which I greatly agree or you may like my own suggestion which goes rather beyond Mr. Bevin's recommendation.

    The Role of Canada in the Challenge of the East to the West 1947

  • Therefore, I think there is good foundation for Mr. Bevin's belief, and I see that the Secretary General of the United Nations Organization has recently expressed himself in much the same terms.

    The International Situation 1947

  • And this for a very simple reason that Mr. Bevin's noble and distinguished predecessors all had their own coats-of-arms, and, when he came into office a seal had to be affixed, and while Mr. Bevin didn't have a private coat-of-arms, he had been presented with a ring by the A.F. of L. which he used for the purpose of sealing the documents.

    The Role of Canada in the Challenge of the East to the West 1947

  • We can get together to advocate either Mr. Bevin's Customs Union which is an idea of great courage or something wider and broader-Wendell Willkie's scheme of a Western Union of like-minded peoples within the framework of "One World", or we may feel that the key to the right approach is definitely to put the notion of "One World" first in the rule of law-the decision of the majority first.

    The Role of Canada in the Challenge of the East to the West 1947

  • In front of Bevin's store a crowd melted apart for his passage, and their faces and whispers were faces and whispers of

    Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey 1905

  • Bevin's run was the most remarkable feat of the kind ever known, either of a white man, or an Indian.

    The Life of Hon William F Cody Cody, William F 1879

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