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...having spent almost half his life in Welsh coal mines, Aneurin Bevan quarreled with his family, decided to seek his fortune in the big world. Coming downstairs, through the warm kitchen with the family seated around a coal fire, young Bevan halted at the door. It was snowing outside. As he hesitated, his father put an arm around his shoulder and said: "Come back, son, there's always a seat at the fireside." Since that day, Nye Bevan's fiery arrivals and quarrelsome departures have played a spectacular part in British Labor politics. In the last two years...
Thousands cheered at the Labor Party Conference at seaside Blackpool when a teller recited the vote that made Bevan party treasurer (by a margin of 274,000 over Candidate George E. Brown). The truth was that the cheers were more for a party decision than for ruddy, white-thatched Nye Bevan himself. Said a Mine Union leader: "We thought he'd be better cornered in office than left wild outside." Sighed a delegate: "Phew, unity at last...
Gathering Strength. The question, however, was how long Bevan, now in a position of greater power than he has ever had before, intended to let party unity be his byword. At a press conference, the returned prodigal said it was too early to think about challenging the party leadership, but he added blandly: "One never rules out any possibility about the future." Bevan also had an answer to the second question worrying the British: Is Labor swinging left? The Labor Party Conference had shown, he said, "a very substantial degree of radical temper-very much more so than in recent...
...rent-controlled houses, and 2) a program for greater equality which commits it to a capital-gains tax and an attempt at cutting or raising all incomes in Britain to one level. But the Labor Party has not officially revived the issue of nationalizing more industries, which Bevan favors, nor did it decide that public, i.e., private, schools should be abolished, a step long advocated by Bevan. The conference also demanded abolition of all forms of race discrimination and segregation in Britain and her colonies, and laid down proposals for the eventual termination of British colonialism. In sum, the party...
...Dick Daley, Candidate Austin had obvious merits to outweigh the fact that outside of Chicago he is practically unknown ("Who is he?" asked a dismayed downstate delegate when the word first got to Springfield). Richard Bevan Austin. 55, is an Episcopalian and will add diversity to a ticket on which there are already four Catholics. He has few enemies in the party, and his personal life-as family man (three sons), Chicago attorney (since 1926), assistant state's attorney (16 years) and judge (since 1953)-has been impeccable...