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...Socialists behaved the same way with Churchill's proposal to create a new Home Guard, plans for which had been studied while Socialist Manny Shinwell was Minister of Defense. Last week it was Manny Shinwell who led the fight on the bill. Apparently trying to outdo Nye Bevan as a Tory-baiter, Manny kept the House of Commons in session for 20 hours, in the first all night sitting of the new Parliament. Those who stayed awake heard a great deal of cross and petty talk. When Shinwell announced that he needed a bath and a shave, a weary...
...Rebel Aneurin Bevan piled up a heavier than usual majority in the Welsh constituency of Ebbw Vale. The two Ministers who resigned with him, Harold Wilson and John Freeman, held their seats. So did the rest of the small camp of Bev-anites, including Sevan's own wife, Jennie Lee. Mr. and Mrs. Bevan are the only man & wife team in the House of Commons. ¶ In Plymouth, John Jacob Astor, parachutist son of a famed spitfire parliamentarian, Lady Astor, wrested his mother's old Commons seat from Laborite Lucy Annie Middleton by 710 votes. Brother William Waldorf...
...Stafford Cripps). or proved inadequate forthe highest tasks (like Herbert Morrison at the Foreign Office). Clement Attlee. conscientious and Christian, carried on-not an imposing figure. but a decent one. He was badgered by Tories in front of him, by crises and muddle around him, and by Aneurin Bevan on his flank...
...election threatened soon, Clement Attlee would be badly needed to head his party's' candidates. If, on the other hand, the new government held on, he would be just as badly needed to protect the party from Rebel Aneurin Bevan...
...what of Bevan? As of now, Attlee securely holds the party's reins. But many observers, including Lord Beaverbrook's stoutly Tory Daily Express, saw in 53-year-old Nye Bevan the real victor in this election. Despite his popularity in his own constituency, his antics had undoubtedly scared many Liberals into voting Tory. "He can claim," said the Daily Express, "to have brought the Tories to office on terms they may well find embarrassing and unprofitable. In opposition, his star will rise still higher...