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...Bevan Up. That brought rambunctious Rebel Aneurin Bevan, that old advocate of fewer arms, to his feet demanding to know just how much rearmament would be cut. "I am not poaching upon the ground which my right honorable friend, the Prime Minister, is to cover at length tomorrow," retorted Butler. To the joy of the critics on the Opposition benches and the dismay of the performer's friends on the government benches, it became clear that Rab Butler had really nothing new to say. The Laborites jeered and badgered him with questions plump and juicy as an overripe tomato...
Garrick seemed old and tired when he entered, and the waiting Laborites figuratively fondled fresh sacks of old vegetables. Nye Bevan came in with a shabby brown briefcase, and was greeted by Tory protests that the bag violated...
...Bevan stood on the hotel balcony and took the salutes. A child, pink-faced and pudgy like himself, skipped past and Bevan pointed with a laugh: "He is my brother, my brother...
...gala grounds went Aneurin Bevan to provide the kind of fighting oratory that goes with the Miners' Gala the way bubble goes with squeak. Girls with hats bearing mottoes, "Cuddle me quick" or "It's now or never," stormed the distinguished guest with autograph books. Miners pranced past with placards that told of deprivations of the past and displayed likenesses of men who had helped in the climb from poverty. All that seemed far away in happy Durham: today miners are a privileged class in Britain. Because Britain so badly needs them, they get better rations and more...
...Bevan wagged a pudgy finger at the crowd and said: "We have opportunities our forefathers never had. Thanks to Socialism, the bad old days are behind us, new urgencies press upon us, but ordinary men and ordinary women using free institutions can do extraordinary things. It's just that we can't afford the luxury of a Tory government. The most patriotic thing Churchill can do is to resign next week...