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...Ellen Wilkinson, Britain's Minister of Education, was lecturing in English at a gathering of school principals in Berlin. Said she: "In Britain we have three main political parties: Conservatives, Liberals and Socialists. The Socialists are now in power." Her German interpreter translated: "In Britain we have three main political parties: Conservatives, Liberals, and National Socialists. The National Socialists are now in power...
...Minister of Education Ellen Wilkinson, 54. Since 1935, "Red Ellen" has represented Jarrow, England's poverty-stricken shipbuilding center. In 1931 she led the Hunger March from Scotland to Westminster, often slept under haystacks and peeled potatoes by the wayside...
Other Laborites who might be offered posts when Prime Minister Attlee completes his Cabinet: Aneurin Bevan, fiery ex-miner, one of Labor's extreme left wing; Ellen Wilkinson, fiery professional trade-union organizer; Michael Foot (Guilty Men), London Daily Herald columnist and the party's ablest pamphleteer; Lieut. General Frank Noel Mason MacFarlane, last man to leave the beach at Dunkirk...
Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Russia's sharp-eyed, correct Commissar for Foreign Affairs, was rated the top "glamor boy" of the San Francisco conference by Britain's pert Delegate Ellen Wilkinson, Labor M.P. Her one qualification: Molotov (unlike Britain's Eden and America's Stettinius) was not really very glamorous "to look...
...Brazilian delegation got no tickets for the opening. The flag flown for Lebanon was wrong. Britain's sprightly Ellen Wilkinson had hoped to buy kitchenware, discovered that she would be unable to carry the extra weight by air, and settled for rayon stockings. The French complained of boredom. A secretary from the French consulate tried to scare up some French-speaking dinner and dancing partners among the women employes of the City of Paris department store...