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Payment Deferred. Health Minister Aneurin Bevan, turbulent rebel of coalition days, briskly unveiled his plans to rehouse Britain. His country had lost half a million homes in the war and must have five million new ones in the next decade. He is requisitioning land for building, said Bevan, and will worry about payments to landowners later. Other points: it will be low-cost housing; local authorities will erect it; materials will be scheduled just like bomber parts; the homeless will be billeted in other people's spare rooms as long as necessary. And by 1950 the problem should...
...State Medical Service Plan, a bulky, cumbersome scheme evolved by iconoclastic Minister of Health Aneurin Bevan to win the cooperation of Britain's reluctant doctors...
...Most portentous Cabinet appointment: Emanuel ("Manny") Shinwell to be Minister of Mines. To him will fall the tough task of nationalizing and modernizing Britain's antiquated coal pits. It will be a pleasure. Minister Shinwell belongs in Minister of Health Bevan's left wing. He is ruthless, knowledgeable, fearless, dour. In Parliament, he has boxed the ears of an M.P. whose opinions he disliked. He hopes to head the Labor Party some...
Hardly had Harold finished, when Aneurin began. In his lusty, left-wing weekly, the Tribune, new Health Minister Bevan put the U.S. in its proper place-as the world's only surviving big capitalist power...
...Bevan urged close economic collaboration between the U.S. and Britain. "But," he wrote, "if the United States as seems at present likely-insists during the next few critical years on returning to the unfettered ups and downs of 'free' monopoly capitalism, the socialist governments of Europe and the Commonwealth must stick together in cushioning their planned economies against destructive economic shocks from that quarter...