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...guarded the doors to the room where clerks (sworn to secrecy) counted the answers. The ballots were replies to a question sent to 55,842 B.M.A. members: Would Britain's doctors be willing to serve under the new National Health Service Act backed by Health Minister Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan...
...answer appeared to be an emphatic no. Last week the B.M.A. jubilantly announced that the results were "not so much a landslide as an avalanche" against Bevan. The vote: 40,814 against, 4,735 in favor...
...Bevan's new health scheme, scheduled to go into effect July 5, is a huge expansion of the panel. All of Britain's 48,000,000 men, women & children (Northern Ireland has a separate plan) will be included; payments by workers will be more than doubled...
Many people found it hard to believe that the decision lay with this small, insignificant and, in some respects, inadequate man. Would not the giants of his party, Ernest Bevin, Sir Stafford Cripps, Herbert Morrison, Hugh Dalton, or Aneurin Bevan, fight it out among them and then tell Attlee what to do? They were having their fights, and the outcome would in part determine what Attlee decided. But individually or collectively, they could not tell him what to do. Clement Attlee embodies all the little virtues of little Englishmen. Their power is his power. Moreover, Attlee is not insignificant...
...Clem Attlee in effect told his colleagues: survival (i.e., increased production) must come before socialization. Health Minister Aneurin Bevan and Fuel & Power Minister Emanuel Shinwell, both far-left Laborites, still want socialization immediately. But most of the ministers rallied to Attlee...