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Straddling Views. Next day Deputy Leader Aneurin Bevan-with whom Gaitskell had wrangled long hours in his Opposition leader's room behind the Speaker's chair at the House of Commons -rose to deliver a speech of flash and fire that paid affable tribute to Gaitskell but straddled the views of Gaitskell and Barbara Castle. Nye Bevan had his own view of the proper socialist future: "In a modern society it is impossible to get rational order by leaving things to private economic adventure. Because I am a socialist, I believe in national ownership. I believe in what...
...Squalid One." Winding up for the Opposition, Aneurin Bevan lashed out at the whole idea of forcing Nyasaland into a permanent federation with apartheid-minded Southern Rhodesia, and quoted some 1957 rhetoric by the Federation's Prime Minister Sir Roy Welen-sky to show what would happen if Britain tried to stand in Rhodesia's way. Sir Roy had said "I personally would never be prepared to accept that Rhodesians have less guts than the American colonists." Since the government had jailed Nyasa-land's African leader, Dr. Hastings Banda, Bevan challenged Lennox-Boyd "to mention anything...
...picked Hugh Gaitskell, now 53, to succeed the retiring Clement Attlee as head of the party, they applauded, but they did not cheer. The sad fact was that the longtime heir apparent, chirpy Herbert Morrison, was too old to take over. And the idol of the left, Aneurin Bevan, seemed too hotheaded. A compromise choice, Gaitskell found himself heading a party whose old-time religion had lost much of its appeal and whose leaders were perpetually torn between accommodating the conservative labor unions and the radical left wing while formulating a policy that would appeal to the nation...
...summit conference more urgent than ever. Said Prime Minister Harold Macmillan: "We cannot abandon the people of West Berlin ... On the other hand, we have to be reasonable and try to work out new arrangements . . ." At a miners' rally in Wales before a crowd of 50,000, mercurial Aneurin Bevan, the man who would be Britain's Foreign Secretary if Labor should win the next election, cast responsibility to the winds. "There is no justification at all for the Geneva talks to break down," said Bevan. "If they do, it will be largely because the Western powers...
...their illicit message through South Wales. Unlike the Scottish nationalist movement, which is more intellectual and romantic, the Welsh nationalists appeal to 2,500,000 cohesive people with an intense pride in their native songs and in their literature, which dates back to the 6th century poets, Taliesin and Aneurin. Welsh is one of the oldest of all living languages in Europe. Welsh nationalism may be no great threat to the government in London, but it is more than a prank, and it appeals to some felt grievances among its people...