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Ernest Bevin, the bull elephant of British labor, last week sat bulkily silent, beadily watchful, in the back row at a caucus of Parliament's Laborite members. The proposal: to expel from the Party his homonym-pink, grizzled Welshman Aneurin Bevan. The crime: Laborite Be-van's revolt against Labor Minister Bevin in the House of Commons...
...tense and troubled meeting, Aneurin Bevan refused to recant. He argued that if he were bounced, 15 other Laborites who sided with him would also have to go. All over Britain, he warned, labor unions were rising against tough, truculent Ernie Bevin's Defense Regulation IAA (five years in prison for strike fomenters...
...Aneurin Bevan talked, Ernie Bevin restlessly shifted his weight, impatiently flung his farm-hardened hands about in gestures he had long used to brush aside opponents, soundlessly worked his pudgy lips. At the end there was no decision. The caucus chairman, indecisive Socialist Arthur Greenwood, was clearly afraid that the ouster would fail. And failure would have been equal to repudiation of Ernest Bevin, a serious thing on the eve of Britain's greatest war effort. The crisis was postponed. But it remained a crisis...
Facts to be Faced. To set the convention's stage, vinegary Labor M. P. Aneurin Bevan wrote an open letter in his weekly Tribune "To Any Labor Delegate...
...House of Commons calendar last week Question No. 45 had been put down by Welsh Laborite Aneurin Bevan, who delights in baiting the Churchill bull. Question No. 45: "To ask the Prime Minister whether he is aware that a letter appeared in the Evening Standard . . . written by a serving officer attached to an intelligence unit in North Africa. ..." The officer: Winston's only son, Major Randolph Churchill...