Word: aneurin
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...they agreed, more reluctantly, to restrain their demands for wage increases, so as not to price British goods out of export markets. Both decisions by the Trades Union Congress (T.U.C.) were victories for the moderate (Attlee) wing of the Labor Party, and defeats for Communists and the followers of Aneurin Bevan, who blame defense spending-as well as the U.S.-for most of Britain's troubles...
Bevan Up. That brought rambunctious Rebel Aneurin Bevan, that old advocate of fewer arms, to his feet demanding to know just how much rearmament would be cut. "I am not poaching upon the ground which my right honorable friend, the Prime Minister, is to cover at length tomorrow," retorted Butler. To the joy of the critics on the Opposition benches and the dismay of the performer's friends on the government benches, it became clear that Rab Butler had really nothing new to say. The Laborites jeered and badgered him with questions plump and juicy as an overripe tomato...
Romping past the Royal County Hotel, the paraders roused the day's distinguished guest-that horny veteran of the pits and stormy rebel of the Labor Party, Aneurin Bevan himself. Past his hotel balcony streamed rugged oldtimers who well remembered the "bad old days" Nye Bevan liked so much to talk about, and younger, well-dressed miners and their ladies, with pockets bulging with money-more than enough for each to take a holiday to Paris...
...gala grounds went Aneurin Bevan to provide the kind of fighting oratory that goes with the Miners' Gala the way bubble goes with squeak. Girls with hats bearing mottoes, "Cuddle me quick" or "It's now or never," stormed the distinguished guest with autograph books. Miners pranced past with placards that told of deprivations of the past and displayed likenesses of men who had helped in the climb from poverty. All that seemed far away in happy Durham: today miners are a privileged class in Britain. Because Britain so badly needs them, they get better rations and more...
...Laborites had just come from a private meeting of their own, one of the stormiest in years. Rebel Aneurin Bevan, who is louder about his anti-Americanism than his antiCommunism, was now making no secret of his campaign to wrest the party from Moderate Clement Attlee. The Bevan wing demanded a tough vote of censure against Churchill, against the U.S. bombing raids on the Yalu River power plants (TIME, July 7) and against the U.S. conduct of the Korean war. Attlee, concerned for Anglo-American solidarity, adamantly refused to join the movement. He favored only a mild motion censuring Churchill...