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...jumped Aneurin Bevan-Nye, the fiery Welsh rebel whose basic anti-Communism is too often obscured by his demagogic anti-Americanism. Shaking a finger at Khrushchev, ruddy-faced Nye answered: "Your view of who is an enemy of the working classes is not our view. Conduct an inquiry into this matter, or, better still, let them all come to England, where we are quite willing to receive them...
...misgivings were felt, few were expressed. Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd and his opposition member on the Labor bench, Nye Bevan, joined in mutual self-congratulation. The fact was that in deciding to accept Malta, everyone was all too conscious of unhappy events in another Mediterranean colony, Cyprus. Malta's 320,000 inhabitants are completely dependent on Britain for their economy, i.e., the Royal Navy, their foreign policy and defense. And, in contrast to Cyprus, thousands of Maltese demonstrated recently by waving Union Jacks and crying, "Long live England...
Rebels or Heroes. Pressing Labor's motion of censure, Nye Bevan was somewhat subdued, getting in only a passing crack at the Tories' "truculent nostalgia" for empire. He made his central point simply: "We will never be able to have a satisfactory military base on the island of Cyprus surrounded by a hostile civil population...
Gaitskell succeeded Clement Attlee as opposition leader in December, by defeating Aneurin Bevan and former deputy leader Herbert Morrison...
...then Chancellor of the Exchequer when ailing Stafford Cripps resigned. Forced to find the money for rearmament in his first budget, he courageously slashed expenses of the welfare state, imposed charges for spectacles and false teeth under the health service-the decision which led to the rebellion of Aneurin Bevan and launched their enmity. Bevan calls Gaitskell "a desiccated calculating machine"; Gaitskell thinks Bevan an irresponsible demagogue...