Word: aneurin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such a rainbow's-end prospect was offered last week to Britons, who have long suffered from an inadequate health system. Health Minister Aneurin Bevan planked down before Parliament his long-expected National Health Service Bill, which promises care for every man, woman & child from womb to tomb-to start...
...Attlee and Bevin, most of the Cabinet appeared in evening dress. But leftist Health Minister Aneurin Bevan inevitably went in a sack suit, his leftist-M.P. wife Jennie Lee in her usual red tweed coat and lizard-skin shoes. Outside the royal box there were only two tiaras. And Covent Garden's scarlet-&-gold opulence had been restored mostly by mere elbow grease. Explained the manager: "Very little new paint has been used, and then only in cases where it was necessary for cleanliness. . . . There is hardly a spot of new gilt anywhere in the theater...
Tory Leader Winston Churchill asked his followers to abstain from voting, but 71 Conservatives insisted on voting against the bill. They were joined by a number of Laborites, including vitriolic Jennie Lee, wife of Housing Minister Aneurin Bevan, and redheaded Barbara Castle, parliamentary secretary to Sir Stafford Cripps...
Unless Minister of Health Aneurin Bevin mended his ways, Churchill growled, "he would be as great a curse to this country in time of peace as he was a squalid nuisance in time of war." He called vegetarian Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade "a national disaster," cried that "these ethereal beings [vegetarians] do produce a very great volume of intellectual output with a minimum of working costs in fuel...
Payment Deferred. Health Minister Aneurin Bevan, turbulent rebel of coalition days, briskly unveiled his plans to rehouse Britain. His country had lost half a million homes in the war and must have five million new ones in the next decade. He is requisitioning land for building, said Bevan, and will worry about payments to landowners later. Other points: it will be low-cost housing; local authorities will erect it; materials will be scheduled just like bomber parts; the homeless will be billeted in other people's spare rooms as long as necessary. And by 1950 the problem should...