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Left-Wing Forward. It was 9:30 a.m. and scores of M.P.s were nodding, when the biggest of all the Bevanites demanded to be heard. The Honorable Bessie Braddock, whom Winston Churchill once dubbed "that constipated Britannia," plays left-wing forward on Nye Bevan's team. Outside the House of Commons, she works as a model for ladies' outsize garments (bust 50 in., waist 40 in., hips...
...Maneuvering." A shilling for each prescription was not a new proposal: the Labor government itself once approved health charges. But to Rebel Nye Bevan, who had bolted Attlee's cabinet in protest, the chance was irresistible. He got to his feet with disarming bashfulness. He was suffering from a bad cold ("The medical profession has not assisted me very greatly in the last week"). M.P.s settled back, expecting Bevanite fireworks. But it wasn't Nye's day. His voice wheezed, he stammered, he was handicapped by his own admission, while Minister of Health, that a shilling...
...Backroom Boy. It was Bevan at his crudest-but this time he got an answer. From an unnoticed back bench on the Tory side of the House came the clear, ringing challenge of a bright-eyed newcomer. He was studious Iain Macleod, 38, a Tory "backroom boy." Macleod startled the House with his opening remarks: "I want to deal closely and with relish with the vulgar, crude and intemperate speech to which the House of Commons has just listened." Then slowly, piece by piece, quoting Labor's own statements, he demolished Bevan's rhetoric. When Bevan...
...House entered its second all-night sitting, Macleod was still on his feet, but Nye Bevan had fled...
Britain's left-wing Laborite Aneurin Bevan, whose noisy tirades against the U.S. have been stilled neither by Winston Churchill nor Clement Attlee, fell silent, canceled his weekend speaking dates because of a laryngitis attack...