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Ernest Bevin: what Wikipedia removed

Ernest Bevin was British Foreign Secretary from 1945 to 1951 and shaped postwar policy on Palestine. Through 2005 the opening said he was infuriated by Zionist acts of terrorism against British troops, which contributed to Britain yielding to American pressure and letting the United Nations determine Palestine’s future. Today the word terror survives three times elsewhere in the article, but the opening covers his trade union career and role founding NATO. A reader arriving now learns Bevin secured Marshall Aid and helped found NATO, not that his Palestine policy was shaped by Zionist terrorism against British forces.

The word “terror” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2005. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 3. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

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  • The rest of the sentence describing Britain’s economic dependence on the US and the path to the UN handling Palestine, dropped along with the reference to Zionist terrorism.

How it opened then, and now

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2005 (revision 16256456):

File:Ac.bevin.jpg The Rt Hon Ernest Bevin Ernest Bevin ( 9 March 1881 - 14 April 1951 ), British labour leader and politician, was born in a small village in Somerset , England . His father, whom he never knew, was an agricultural labourer and his mother was a housemaid who died when he was eight. He had little formal education, leaving school in Crediton , Devon in 1890 . At the age of eleven he went to work as a labourer, then as a truck driver in Bristol . In 1910 he became secretary of the Bristol branch of the Dockers’ Union, and in 1914 he became a national organiser for the union. In 1922 Bevin was one of the founding leaders of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU), which so…

2025 (revision 1298325058):

British trade union leader, politician, and statesman (1881–1951) This article is about the statesman and politician. For the school, see Ernest Bevin Academy . Not to be confused with Aneurin Bevan . Ernest Bevin (9 March 1881 – 14 April 1951) was a British statesman, trade union leader and Labour Party politician. He co-founded and served as General Secretary of the powerful Transport and General Workers’ Union from 1922 to 1940 and served as Minister of Labour and National Service in the wartime coalition government . He succeeded in maximising the British labour supply for both the armed services and domestic industrial production with a minimum of strikes and disruption. His most import…

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