Talk:Ernest Bevin
Latest comment: 17 years ago by Fys in topic UK nuclear weapons
UK nuclear weapons edit
anyone want to incorporate the famous quote "we have got to have this thing over here whatever it costs... we have got to have [a] bloody Union Jack on top of it..." , [1], [2], [3] also quoted in the TUBE ALLOYS arricle Pickle 17:43, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
160.5.247.8 21:20, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- OK, have put it in the 'attributed section'. I have heard this before and it certainly accords with Bevin's views, but as it was said in private I doubt we will have a proper source. I might check with the Cabinet Committee papers in the PRO, but they tend to be cleaned of any interesting language. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 11:50, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
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- They say that Gladstone was at the Treasury from 1860 to 1930. I intend to be Minister of Labour from 1940 to 1990!
- If you open that Pandora's Box, you never know what Trojan 'orses will jump out!
- On the Council of Europe.
- Not while I'm alive he ain't.
- Nigel Rees, "Sayings of the Century" (Unwin Hyman, 1987), p. 233
- Bevin's response to an overheard remark that "Nye is his own worst enemy". Also applied to Herbert Morrison and Emanuel Shinwell.