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...British socialists met in Edinburgh. The Ramsay MacDonald government had collapsed. Their movement was wasted by feuds, weighted by inertia; socialism in Britain was moribund. Something had to be done. In desperation they decided to start a tuppenny weekly. To get it going, people like Stafford Cripps, Aneurin Bevan, Ellen Wilkinson, George Russell Strauss and John Strachey chipped in ?10 apiece to buy stock...
...Finns. Early in the Tribune's career, it had narrowly escaped abduction by the Communists, while Cripps and Bevan weren't paying enough attention. Publisher Victor Gollancz, then a fellow traveler (now safely home again), began sharing the deficits with Stafford Cripps in 1938, and Konni Zilliacus, now a pro-Soviet M.P., blossomed as the "Diplomatic Correspondent." In 1940, when the Tribune went so far as to accuse the Finns of aggression against Russia, Nye Bevan woke up and rushed to the rescue...
Colonel Blimp nearly fainted in his bath: in Health Minister Aneurin Bevan's leftist Tribune had appeared a headline: "Nationalize the M.C.C." The M.C.C. is the Marylebone Cricket Club, blueblooded governing body of the national sport. Wrote poker-faced George Harrison in London's News of the World...
Health Minister Aneurin Bevan had worked hard to win the doctors over. On his side were the prestigious Royal College of Physicians, a majority of medical men in the military services, and most low-income medicos. To reassure opponents, the bill left open to negotiation the key questions of pay and terms of employment under the plan (the B.M.A. vote was on the question of whether to enter such negotiations). To sweeten a provision most obnoxious to doctors-a ban on the sale of practices-Bevan set up a $266,000,000 fund for payments to physicians at retirement...
While the B.M.A. girded itself for "the inevitable conflict," most Britons put their money on Bevan. The B.M.A. was plainly divided (besides the 18,972 who had voted to dicker, 14,525 had not voted at all). Bevan promptly announced that he would proceed to negotiate with other medical societies (e.g., the Royal College of Physicians). If he could negotiate satisfactory terms, many a doctor would come into the plan, B.M.A. or no B.M.A. Said the London Times: "If it [ B.M.A. ] persists in refusing to attach as much importance to the general election of 1945 as it does...