Word: aneurin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day glib, robust Aneurin Bevan, Welsh Laborite and cofounder (with Sir Stafford Cripps) of the leftist weekly Tribune, rose in Parliament to attack Churchill. Said he: "Mr. Churchill is no longer able to summon the spirit of the British people because he represents policies they deeply distrust." Laborite Bevan was so biliously personal that even London's most liberal columnist, A. J. Cummings of the News Chronicle, called him "an arch-exhibitionist . . . who gave a deplorable exhibition of bad manners, bad temper and bad criticism...
With these words Britain's Laborite M.P. Aneurin Bevan (not to be confused with Labor Minister Ernest Bevin) last week went to the defense of freedom of the press in Britain. In the same debate in the House of Commons many another pungent word was spoken, for the fact was-and Britain was awakening to it-that wartime freedom of the press in the English-speaking world was now actually, openly and seriously threatened...
Some 30 members of the House of Commons are onetime coal miners; they know the labor problems of the mines firsthand. Among the ablest of them is Welsh Laborite Aneurin Bevan of Ebbw Vale (pronounced Ebba Vale...
...both these factions for the leftists. Mrs. Strauss sees them all as so many Joys and Glooms. Among the Joys: Ellen Wilkinson, Sir Stafford Cripps ("affectionately" called "Christ and Carrots" Cripps because he is a vegetarian and "a deeply convinced Christian, although not a churchman"), Welsh Coal Miner M.P. Aneurin Bevan, John Strachey ("a big sleek black cat, with perfect manners and a feline ability to keep his object firmly in view"), Victor Gollancz (cofounder of Britain's Left Book Club), Professor Harold Laski...
Bitter was the opposition of Laborites, virtually all State-schooled. Argumentative Labor M.P. Aneurin Bevan* - told the House tartly: "There is a great body of opinion, which isn't sufficiently articulate, that public schools should be allowed to die a natural death. Some would like them to die a little more violently." Crumped acid Labor M.P. Charles Ammon: "While it is said the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, it can be answered now that the Battle of Britain was won on the playing fields of the [State] schools of England...