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...Bevan. "People then said Londoners would waste their time riding up & down them. Well, perhaps a few did, for the first week. But they soon got tired...
...Runs the Show? To operate his plan Bevan has appointed 138 executive councils, each composed of 25 members who serve as volunteers, somewhat as do the members of U.S. draft boards. Bevan insisted, in opposition to some of his Socialist colleagues, that the boards remain nonpolitical, i.e., that Conservatives may serve on them. "We have taken money out of medicine," he said. "I will not let politics take hold." British hospitals, virtually all taken over by the Ministry, are run by special hospital boards, usually composed of the same officials who ran them before. In the whole British health service...
...patients on his list, which would give him a gross income of $13,600. In a few regions, there are more doctors than necessary (e.g., one to each 1,000 patients along Britain's south coast). The result is that doctors' income there is low. Though Bevan could raise their fees, he refuses to do so in these cases because he wants the south coast physicians to move to "underdoctored" areas...
Look into the Future. Some observers believe that the social welfare state may destroy democracy in Britain and pave the way for Communism. Others say it will provide the best bulwark against Communism, by preventing the want and insecurity on which Communism thrives. That is the way Nye Bevan sees it. Sevan's colleagues say he is one of the party's most active antiCommunists. As a member of the Labor Party's international affairs subcommittee, Bevan engineered the party's appeal to the Italian Socialists against fusion with the Communists before the 1948 Italian elections...
...Bevan is pleased with what he has done in Britain. He considers it only a start. Morrison and other party leaders want to sit back and consolidate the party gains. Bevan says the party is like a man on a bicycle: if he stops he will fall. According to his own statement, Bevan will settle for nothing less than "total destruction" of the remnants of British capitalism, including the Conservative Party. He has estimated that completion of his program will take 25 years. Whether or not he and his party will have a chance to finish the job is still...