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Irrepressible Nye Bevan concluded for the opposition. Noting that one impassioned Tory defender of heredity had cited Bevan's own respect for the "science of breeding" in raising pigs on his Buckinghamshire farm, Nye gleefully commented: "I must say that I thought that was an inelegant metaphor. I should never have thought of using it myself. I am not quite certain what the test is to be. In pig breeding, it is length and leanness. If we are to make the [tests] on biological grounds, we ought to have the members of another place [the Commons' phrase...
...crakes [a short-billed rail] in a gale!" Of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (see FOREIGN NEWS): "He ruins the whole effect by wings of hair sticking out on either side of his face and by a mustache that one would hardly call elegant." Of Laborites Hugh Gaitskell and Aneurin Bevan: "Quite content to be permanently untidy about the ears...
...Move. At home, Khrushchev nominated himself as spokesman of the New Class in the Soviet Union. He was careful to disassociate himself from Stalin's terror, and the New Class was grateful. Khrushchev himself told British Laborite Aneurin Bevan the story of how it had been before. Presidium members, said Khrushchev, drew up a plan to decentralize the economy after World War II, and Voznesensky, the chief economic planner, took it to Stalin. "Voznesensky came back," said Khrushchev, "and told them Stalin had denounced him as a traitor to socialism. This made them angry because Voznesensky had merely done what...
...London near week's end, Britain's House of Commons passed judgment on the Paris conference. Twice during the day's debate, shouts of "Treason!" were hurled at Prime Minister Harold Macmillan from the Visitors' Gallery. Snapped Aneurin Bevan, Labor's left-leaning spokesman on foreign affairs: "We are profoundly depressed when representative after representative of the British government . . . has no advice to give to the nation except to build up one more tier of ridiculous armaments on the useless pile we have created." The government won the vote, 289 to 251. But its majority...
...Aneurin Bevan, most likely Foreign Secretary in any future British Labor government: "I agree with Mr. Kennan because I have said it often before. If Germany is to regain her unity by agreement with the Soviet Union, then she must be ready to pay her price-neutralization...