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...Minister of Health Aneurin Bevan, 47. One of the ex-miners, "Nye" Bevan spends much time furiously flapping the Labor Party's extreme left wing. He is expected to tangle talons right away with the British Medical Association over a National Health Service Bill (Socialized Medicine...
...Secretary of State for India and Burma, the Right Honorable Frederick W. Pethick-Lawrence, 73. Once a militant suffragist, Minister Pethick-Lawrence took his wife's name (Pethick), went to jail with her. Last week King George VI made him a baron. Minister of Health Bevan once referred to the new baron as "that crusty old Tory who still sticks in the Labor Party...
Other Laborites who might be offered posts when Prime Minister Attlee completes his Cabinet: Aneurin Bevan, fiery ex-miner, one of Labor's extreme left wing; Ellen Wilkinson, fiery professional trade-union organizer; Michael Foot (Guilty Men), London Daily Herald columnist and the party's ablest pamphleteer; Lieut. General Frank Noel Mason MacFarlane, last man to leave the beach at Dunkirk...
Stunning Resonance. Meanwhile the Labor Party conference at Blackpool ended a week of stunning resonance with a series of verbal thunderclaps. The mood of British labor, echoing Europe's mood of social change, was grimly set by Aneurin Bevan, leftist M.P.: "We want the complete extinction of the Tory Party and 25 years of Labor government." The Labor Party's program was outlined in a sweeping nationalization program for "a Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain" (TIME...
...survivors of the British resistance movement were in their places. Aneurin Bevan, bearing the marks of torture [he had been captured while leading the famous attempt to rescue Winston Churchill from the death cell at Brixton Prison], had come back from the Welsh hills. . . . Megan Lloyd George [daughter of David Lloyd George], La Pasionaria of the British resistance movement . . . was in her place, and by her side sat the aged Lord Winterton, who had organized and conducted the resistance movement among the ruins of London for three years...