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...Aneurin Bevan...
Britain's Harold Wilson quit his cabinet post as President of the Board of Trade, right after Aneurin Bevan left, because he thought that the U.S. was starving Britain on raw materials. Said Wilson: "British industry stands disorganized and threatened by paralysis [because] we have not had our rightful share of the raw materials available." Europeans raised the cry that the U.S. intends to rearm by crippling the industries of Europe...
...issues that had forced Costello to call the elections in the first place: socialized medicine. Ireland's Health Minister, Dr. Noel Browne-an Irish, ascetic version of Britain's Aneurin Bevan-had pressed for a full socialized medicine system, including postnatal care for mothers and free medical care for children. Ireland's doctors opposed the bill and the Roman Catholic Church came out against it because it would mean state interference in private family concerns. Another opponent: Sean MacBride, Foreign Minister in the Costello cabinet and leader of Browne's own party, the Clann Na Poblachta...
Stalag 17 (by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski; produced by José Ferrer) is an unexpectedly bright little knickknack, considering the nature of its subject and the lateness of the season. Set in a Nazi prison barracks full of U.S. airmen, toward the end of World War II, it mixes a good deal of earthy comedy with lively if commonplace melodrama. Somebody in the barracks is plainly blabbing the prisoners' small secrets to the Nazis. And when there is something really serious to blab about - when a new prisoner confides that he set a Nazi train on fire...
Playwrights Bevan & Trzcinski, who met during their years in a German prison camp, provide a few glimpses of Nazi brutality. But in general they display sharper memories for what goes over on the stage than what went on in their stalag. Producer Ferrer, in his boisterous staging, equally neglects mind and heart for spine and funnybone...