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...required of the promising young politician that he should be a pace ahead of his time. Often, as in the case of Britain's Aneurin Bevan, the shining locks of promise turn white before the step ahead is spanned. Pierre Mendès-France, who has often been compared with Bevan, is still young enough (46) to feel that the future is within his stride. Last week, the third in France's governmental crisis, Mendès-France asked the Chamber of Deputies to give him the power to lead a government...
Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill called the speech "massive and magnificent" (though Labor's Nye Bevan, sharpest British critic of the U.S., dissented on the ground that Eisenhower was conceding "nothing at all"). In France, the non-Communist press applauded ("historic discourse . . . appeals to good will") while the Communist press struck the only sour note ("preachifying is mingled with . . . unreasonable demands"). In Italy, Prime Minister Alcide de Gasperi called it "honest and vigorous." Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, coming to the end of his U.S. visit, was enthusiastic; so, back home, was his Socialist opponent, Eric...
Telegrams of protest poured into the House of Commons. A band of 50 M.P.s, mostly Bevanites, tried to debate the subject and were ruled out of order. Then Nye Bevan led a deputation representing 150 M.P.s to Sir David's office-without success. Bentley's parents appealed to Prime Minister Churchill, to the Duke of Edinburgh, to Queen Elizabeth herself...
Rebellious Nye Bevan automatically took a back seat in Parliament nearly two years ago when he resigned the Labor Ministry and began his long feud with then Prime Minister Clement Attlee. Last week Rebel Nye moved up front again. By the narrowest of squeaks, the Laborites in Parliament voted him into the twelfth place (out of twelve) in the Opposition's "shadow cabinet," which faces the real cabinet across the open floor of the House of Commons. It was a Pyrrhic victory for Nye, for as one of Labor's official Parliamentary spokesmen, sitting on the front bench...
...Chelsea Town Hall, where he attended a dance for West African students and made a little speech, the British Labor Party's great grey grumbler was introduced as "The One & Only Aneurin Bevan." Said Bevan in reply: "When I heard your chairman refer to me as "the one & only Aneurin Bevan, I heaved a sigh of relief-for if there were more of me, I would be declared an illegal association...