GREAT BRITAIN: The King Joins the Union

With the Tudor buildings of England a society is crumbling. Each week the foundations of a new social structure emerge a little more clearly from the rubble of the old. Last week three unrelated happenings showed the shape of this new society.

>Cornerstone of the new structure is Britain's one big union, the Trades Union Congress, of which aitchless Labor Minister Ernest Bevin ("Britain's Next Prime Minister" to his friends) is the dominating figure. Chairman of T. U. C. is Ernest Bevin's good friend George Gibson, who used to be a male nurse...

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