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Next day glib, robust Aneurin Bevan, Welsh Laborite and cofounder (with Sir Stafford Cripps) of the leftist weekly Tribune, rose in Parliament to attack Churchill. Said he: "Mr. Churchill is no longer able to summon the spirit of the British people because he represents policies they deeply distrust." Laborite Bevan was so biliously personal that even London's most liberal columnist, A. J. Cummings of the News Chronicle, called him "an arch-exhibitionist . . . who gave a deplorable exhibition of bad manners, bad temper and bad criticism...
With these words Britain's Laborite M.P. Aneurin Bevan (not to be confused with Labor Minister Ernest Bevin) last week went to the defense of freedom of the press in Britain. In the same debate in the House of Commons many another pungent word was spoken, for the fact was-and Britain was awakening to it-that wartime freedom of the press in the English-speaking world was now actually, openly and seriously threatened...
...Laborite Bevan, who declared that he never had liked the Mirror, really put Herbert Morrison on the spot. He casually pulled a bundle of clippings from his pocket and began reading from articles that Morrison himself had written for the Mirror before he became a member of the Government. One said that "the people want less muddled advice from the top"; another, that War Minister Hore-Belisha had been ousted by the brass hats because he wanted to democratize the army...
...Could there be any more seditious suggestion," cried Bevan, "at the very time when the British Army was in France facing the enemy . . . undermining confidence in the High Command just as much as anything the Daily Mirror has printed since...
...Said Bevan acidly: "What stopped their return was that the Prime Minister thought about the matter romantically, while the brass hats advised him stupidly. ... In fact the Government is the only enemy the generals have so far been able to defeat...