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Still looking pale and sickly after major abdominal surgery (TIME, March 28), British Laborite Aneurin Bevan, 62, issued assurances that he has no plans to write his memoirs, then took a spirited swipe at those who so much as read that sort of thing. He singled out a favorite target: Britain's Tory Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Said Bevan: "I understand that Macmillan reads political biographies. I have never been able to achieve that credulity. My experience of public life has taught me to know that most of them are entirely unreliable. I would rather take my fiction straight...
...dogmatic leftists in the party, this was heresy, a betrayal of socialist principles; only a single commanding speech by Labor's fiery second-in-command, Aneurin Bevan, standing by his leader, kept the party conference from falling apart in November. Nye Bevan, after a major abdominal operation, is down to a scant 140 Ibs., and living in seclusion on his Buckinghamshire farm. With Nye out of action, socialist left-wingers rose in open revolt, and the party leadership split in warring factions. Instead of stumping the country like Gladstone to stir up mass support for a new Opposition policy...
Draft Dropped. The 1918 clause was kept, but a modernized clarification was tacked on, and-in the evangelical language so dear to Labor-promptly dubbed the New Testament. In a phrase lifted from a speech by Nye Bevan, who lifted it in turn from a 1922 speech by Lenin, it called for "substantial enough" common ownership to give power over the "commanding heights of the economy." Surviving from Hugh Gaitskell's original draft was a line "recognizing that both public and private enterprise have a place in the economy...
Straddling Views. Next day Deputy Leader Aneurin Bevan-with whom Gaitskell had wrangled long hours in his Opposition leader's room behind the Speaker's chair at the House of Commons -rose to deliver a speech of flash and fire that paid affable tribute to Gaitskell but straddled the views of Gaitskell and Barbara Castle. Nye Bevan had his own view of the proper socialist future: "In a modern society it is impossible to get rational order by leaving things to private economic adventure. Because I am a socialist, I believe in national ownership. I believe in what...
Milk? "I get 750 gallons a year per cow," said Ukrainian Farmer Fedor Kozlovsky. "Not bad, but I'm doing better than that," said British Farmer Nye Bevan, who, with fellow Laborite Hugh Gaitskell, had turned up in the Soviet Union to reap some of the summer's bumper crop of Russian-grown political hay. "But you weren't overrun by Hitler," said Fedor. Said Nye: "Those were not cows that were overrun by Hitler...