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...Honorable Hugh Stanley, 24, brother of the Earl of Derby, informed Fox-Strangways that Minister of Labor Aneurin Bevan, rabid Socialist and ex-coal-miner, was being entertained at White's. Bevan's host was Sir John Slessor, Air Chief Marshal, who had invited the minister in for a drink after a meeting on R.A.F. manpower problems...
Prime Minister Clement Attlee shuffled his cabinet last week. Aneurin Bevan, who had run the Ministry of Health for five years, became Minister of Labor, in charge of mobilization of manpower. He replaced bumbling George Isaacs, who was shifted to the Ministry of Pensions, with a $5,600 salary cut and loss of cabinet rank. Former Minister of Pensions Hilary Marquand, a little-known, dependable public servant and former economics professor, took over Bevan's Health Ministry. Housing, which had been under the Health Minister's jurisdiction, was shifted to Hugh Dalton, who became Minister of Local Government...
Attlee's game of musical chairs meant more power for Bevan and Dalton, both members of the Labor Party's anti-U.S. (but not pro-Red) left wing, which Right-Winger Attlee has consistently appeased. In recent months Bevan has stubbornly opposed British rearmament, has fought tooth & nail against more defense spending if it meant curtailing his social services. Attlee may hope that as manpower boss, a key defense post, Bevan would find it in his own interests to help Britain's defense program...
...profession, facing the bankruptcy of a policy, a policy based on the decisions of the coalition government during a war for survival and put into execution by a Minister of Health [Aneurin Bevan] who could not resist the temptation to behave like a Fairy Godmother to an impoverished nation...
...Bevan faction of the Labor Party, which has been pressing for an early election, was mildly rebuked by Prime Minister Attlee in his address to the conference. Attlee reaffirmed the government's determination to carry out Socialist policy with a "small but solid" majority. Polls taken throughout the country showed little change in popular opinion since the February election. Attlee had little hope of substantially increasing his majority and the Conservatives had little confidence that they could upset Labor. The word around Margate was that the election would be "soon, but not yet." Meanwhile, a middleaged, well-tailored Labor...