[ noun ] British labor leader and statesman who played an important role in diplomacy after World War II (1884-1951) <noun.person>
There she met Ernie Bevin, the foreign secretary, and, more sensationally, the traitor Donald Maclean. 'I was the last person to see him the night he disappeared.
For all we know of their behaviour, should they reach office the former may be the Attlee and the latter the Bevin of the 1990s, although I suspect that he himself would doubt that.
Jews call the former jail across the compound Bevingrad, for Ernest Bevin, Britain's anti-Zionist foreign minister of the late 1940s.