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...baths myself. Anyway, what's underneath isn't seen by anybody." In 1950, he replaced ailing Sir Stafford Cripps as Chancellor of the Exchequer and immediately began slashing welfare expenses to pay for Britain's defense commitments. It was a decision which enraged Labor Firebrand Aneurin Bevan, then Minister of Health, and which began a titanic battle for power within the party...
...have shared his views and fought his battles sat back in ashen-faced disgust as Gaitskell, longtime champion of NATO and other internationalist policies, piped the party down the road to timorous isolation from Europe. Hugh Gaitskell's fiercest foes, the leftists who still repeat the late Aneurin Bevan's taunt that he is "a desiccated calculating machine," led tumultuous rounds of applause for every backward step he took...
...Pasha in Surrey. Yet the book makes clear that Lloyd George, besides being a great man, also lived up to the English legend-that the Welsh are lechers and Bible bashers, musicians and bards, and, from Henry Tudor to Aneurin Bevan, have had a capacity for stirring up trouble. Lloyd George was a humbug ("a Bible-thumping pagan," is his son's phrase), something very close to a crook (the question of a political fund, most of which may have stuck in his own pocket, was never cleared up), and a sedulous seducer on a scale "unprecedented...
...British Laborites ever so loudly damned the rich as the late Aneurin Bevan, who once ticked off the landed gentry as "vermin." Supplementing his own $4,900-a-year salary as an M.P. with writing, ex-Coal Miner Bevan spent his last years on a 52-acre farm in Buckinghamshire, taking up with delight many of the ways of his erstwhile class enemies, while sticking to his old convictions. When Nye Bevan's estate was probated last week, it was totted up at $65,766.80-a tidy amount to accumulate in tax-burdened Britain...
...unfair that Europeans are not allowed to participate in the election of the U.S. President, since their fate in so many ways is in the hands of men chosen by Americans alone," the late Aneurin Bevan once remarked, only half in jest. Last week not only the U.S. but Europe and the rest of the world were debating the qualities and qualifications of President-elect John F. Kennedy...