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Push, Don't Pay. What gives the changeless Bemelmans world its hard-wearing longevity is that it belongs neither to pure fact nor pure fiction. Its borders extend to Palm Beach and Hollywood, but its heartland is Europe-not the Europe of Gide or Aneurin Bevan, but a continent whose inhabitants behave as if Strauss operettas and books by Bemelmans were their sole guides to everyday life. In Bemelmans' Europe, all is eternally prewar, in mood if not in time: the Rolls-Royces glide forever down the poplar-lined avenues to the magic chateaux of mysterious princesses...
Macleod really made his mark with one speech six weeks ago when he took on and bested Leftist Aneurin Bevan, the undisputed heavyweight debating champ on the opposition side of the House. Even though the subject was socialized medicine, which Bevan considers his own, Macleod outreached him with facts, outgunned him with ridicule (TIME, April...
Through the night, for 12½ hours, the debate on the guillotine motion went on, with M.P.s catching catnaps in the library. "A brutal motion," cried Labor Strategist Herbert Morrison. "What a reputation the Conservative Party are giving Great Britain abroad," stormed Rebel Aneurin Bevan, "when they say that . . . England can only be held together by making charges on abdominal belts...
Before the week was done, the wily old political warrior made known his plans to give junior cabinet rank to several backbenchers, including brainy young Iain MacLeod, who successfully argued down Nye Bevan last month, and who writes a bridge column for the Sunday Times...
...Bevan's cynical explanation of his change in attitude: "When I accepted the shilling prescription charge, I was maneuvering...