Word: aneurin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan, Labor's Health Minister, was in a reminiscent mood last week. But memories of a poverty-haunted childhood in Tredegar, South Wales, left the Minister of Health far from mellow. "No amount of cajolery and no attempts at ethical or social seduction," he told a meeting of Laborites at Manchester, "can eradicate from my heart a deep, burning hatred for the Tory party that inflicted those bitter experiences on me. So far as I am concerned, they are lower than vermin . . ." "What is Toryism," he asked later, "but organized spivery...
...B.M.A. porter guarded the doors to the room where clerks (sworn to secrecy) counted the answers. The ballots were replies to a question sent to 55,842 B.M.A. members: Would Britain's doctors be willing to serve under the new National Health Service Act backed by Health Minister Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan...
Many people found it hard to believe that the decision lay with this small, insignificant and, in some respects, inadequate man. Would not the giants of his party, Ernest Bevin, Sir Stafford Cripps, Herbert Morrison, Hugh Dalton, or Aneurin Bevan, fight it out among them and then tell Attlee what to do? They were having their fights, and the outcome would in part determine what Attlee decided. But individually or collectively, they could not tell him what to do. Clement Attlee embodies all the little virtues of little Englishmen. Their power is his power. Moreover, Attlee is not insignificant...
...Clem Attlee in effect told his colleagues: survival (i.e., increased production) must come before socialization. Health Minister Aneurin Bevan and Fuel & Power Minister Emanuel Shinwell, both far-left Laborites, still want socialization immediately. But most of the ministers rallied to Attlee...
...Constitutionally, if Commons insisted on passing it, the Lords could not kill the transportation bill; but-by sending it back to Commons again & again with more & more amendments-they could postpone its passage for years. Labor made it clear that it would not stand for that. Cried Health Minister Aneurin Bevan: "If the House of Lords dares to stand between the will of the people and what they desire, then it will be the end of the House of Lords...