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Sir Edward Grey, Sir Anthony Eden, Ernest Bevin, Alec Douglas-Hume - and Robin Cook!
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The ceremony coincides with the 60th anniversary of the demobilisation of the last Bevin Boys.
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His work with the Bevin Boys Association has taken him around the country, giving talks and holding reunions.
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Mr Bevin, the then minister for Labour and National Service, introduced the scheme in response to an increasing shortage of labour in the coal mining industry.
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While America was still considering a wide range of options, including leaving Berlin, Ernest Bevin, the British foreign secretary, declared that the British government intended to stay put.
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Ernest Stonestreet, 81, who lives in Peterborough, was an office boy working for the public health department when he became a Bevin Boy at the age of 18, in January 1945.
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Nor was Ernest Bevin, the foreign secretary.
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The heroes of the blockade turned out to be Bevin, President Truman and Clay, the American proconsul who created the airlift which succeeded in supplying Berlin in the face of a belief within the Pentagon that Berlin could not be sustained by air.
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