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When Colonel Blimp opened one of his favorite papers one day last week-the Tory Evening Standard-he got an eye-bugging jolt. Gad, sir, the Standard seemed to have an odd new contributor: hell-raising Laborite Aneurin Bevan, who once called the Conservative press "the most prostituted in the world...
...Celery Eaters. Among Foyle's customers are Queen Mary, who sends over for books on antiques and fine art; Winston Churchill, who gets a regular shipment of thrillers, and Labor Party Left-Winger Aneurin Bevan, who tries to read a U.S. western every night...
...Extremely muddled thinking." Said the London Economist: "Mr. Bevan's brand of reactionary orthodoxy cannot rest on anything but poverty of thought." Said the Daily Mail: "Political nitwittery...
Ever since Aneurin Bevan, labor's hell-raising left-winger, quit the Attlee government last April, he has been working on a manifesto which, friends said, would inject new life into Britain's torpid socialism. Last week Bevan unveiled the manifesto. Title: One Way Only...
...except a pacifist or partisan of the Kremlin," explains Bevan, "would argue that military strength is not needed to deter the rulers of Soviet Russia." But rearmament is proceeding too rapidly and may spoil the chances of a peaceful settlement. "In 1953 . . . the Americans will possess a dominance in armed strength . . . greater than that which was ever possessed by any other country in peacetime. It is not unknown for a giant to wish to use his strength, even though he is not attacked." Few Britons, except the editors of the Daily Worker and Bevan's followers, had anything good...