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...British Laborites ever so loudly damned the rich as the late Aneurin Bevan, who once ticked off the landed gentry as "vermin." Supplementing his own $4,900-a-year salary as an M.P. with writing, ex-Coal Miner Bevan spent his last years on a 52-acre farm in Buckinghamshire, taking up with delight many of the ways of his erstwhile class enemies, while sticking to his old convictions. When Nye Bevan's estate was probated last week, it was totted up at $65,766.80-a tidy amount to accumulate in tax-burdened Britain...
...unfair that Europeans are not allowed to participate in the election of the U.S. President, since their fate in so many ways is in the hands of men chosen by Americans alone," the late Aneurin Bevan once remarked, only half in jest. Last week not only the U.S. but Europe and the rest of the world were debating the qualities and qualifications of President-elect John F. Kennedy...
...want," cried Bevan at a Labor Party conference in 1945, "the complete political extinction of the Tory Party." Finally, Labor got its chance. Clement Attlee became Prime Minister, and, to the consternation of many, he made Aneurin Bevan Minister of Health and then Minister of Labor and National Service. Bev an fathered the National Health Service, but when Attlee's new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Gaitskell, allotted more to armaments and less to welfare than Nye wanted, Bevan resigned from the Cabinet in disgust...
...Kremlin-directed Communist movement as deeply malevolent. When Moscow ordered the Berlin blockade, he was almost alone in Britain in demanding that the Allies send armored columns to break through it. With age there came a kind of mellowing, mixed with listlessness and bitterness. No longer did people say Bevan was "the next Prime Minister...
Died. Aneurin Bevan, 62, the impassioned, irrepressible maverick and front-bench spellbinder of the British Labor Party; of cancer; in Chesham, England...