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There was torrid talk about Labor having to seek a coalition with the Tories. People whispered of convulsions within the Labor Cabinet (Shinwell was about to be thrown to the dogs. Bevan was ready to move in where Bevin feared to tread). Cried Ernie Bevin: "My God, working men and women! This is the first Labor Government you've got.* Don't let it fall!" A gust of anti-Attlee anecdotes swirled up. Said one Labor minister: "If you told Attlee, 'Look here, sir, I've just put strychnine in your wife's coffee...
...Commons insisted on passing it, the Lords could not kill the transportation bill; but-by sending it back to Commons again & again with more & more amendments-they could postpone its passage for years. Labor made it clear that it would not stand for that. Cried Health Minister Aneurin Bevan: "If the House of Lords dares to stand between the will of the people and what they desire, then it will be the end of the House of Lords...
...street had not changed much. The prostitution trade was as brisk as ever while Eros was hiding out. But if the god had deserted his old post for the duration, he had certainly not been idle elsewhere. Last week, just before Eros returned to Piccadilly Circus, Health Minister Aneurin Bevan was able to announce that, for the first time in 25 years, Britain's birth rate had overtaken its death rate...
...sharply reminded of that fact last week by a Labor Party pamphlet which bluntly restated Labor's foreign policy. It will hear more this week, when party delegates convene for their annual conference at Margate (Britain's Atlantic City). There the party "rebels" (Nye Bevan, Dick Grossman et al.) will push their attacks against Ernie Bevin's foreign policy. They accuse him of 1) turning Britain into a Guam by undue dependence on the U.S., 2) being too hostile to Russia. The party's pamphlet, called Cards on the Table (a favorite Bevinism), admittedly...
...Bevan, bound by the rule which forbids Ministers to write for publication, got into the anniversary number with what was euphemistically called an "interview." He gave it with a chip on his left shoulder: "We have traveled quite a distance from those frustrated days in Edinburgh. . . . But we have not yet a Socialist Britain. . . . In defending the Government where . . . justified, Tribune is not called upon equally to defend that portion of private enterprise that our political strategy leaves for the moment untouched...