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...Then to Pawnshops. In the coal-grimed hills of his native South Wales, Attlee's heir apparent, Health Minister Aneurin Bevan, orated to the tune of fair shares for all. "We've proved you can run the mines without the mine owners," he said, "but you can't run 'em without the miners. I only ask you to look into your lives and decide for yourselves whether you are better...
...frequently ungentle Labor Party could not be explained by brushing Attlee off as a figurehead. In actual power over party decisions, quiet, little (5 ft. 7½ in., 140 Ibs.) Clem Attlee stood head & shoulders above his fellow Laborite leaders. This was true even though he lacked Aneurin Bevan's fiery eloquence, Herbert Morrison's parliamentary skill, Sir Stafford Cripps's brilliance and Ernest Bevin's command of the warm loyalty of millions of unionists. What Attlee did have was political balance and a sense of timing. These faculties were all-important as the Labor Party...
...invoked in the last five years. So far, only 657 applications for permission to change jobs have been actually refused, but the laws remain on the books and there is no doubt that thousands of workers are hesitant to change their jobs because of them. Some Laborites, e.g., Nye Bevan, regularly use the vocabulary of class warfare. Given a period of sharp economic stress, British Socialism might take an ugly, dictatorial turn...
Summary: Harvard Varsity vs. Hartford Golf Club: Foster (H) defeated Bevan, 3-0; Nawn (H) defeated Batterson, 3-1; Bacon (H) defeated Wilkie, 3-1; Brainard defeated Flagg (H), 3-0; Seymour defeated Hoar (H), 3-0; Harding (H) defeated Brainard, 3-1; Brooks defeated Richardson (H), 3-0; Symmes (H), defeated Powell...
Last week, T.U.C. leaders faced their government's key men in Sir Stafford Cripps's study in the House of Commons. Beside Cripps at his maroon-topped desk sat Ernest Bevin and Aneurin Bevan, both good union men. Ernie Bevin assumed the role in which he feels most at home: that of the table-thumping, tough-spoken bargainer. This time he was arguing for the employer's side, i.e., the government. When the T.U.C. leaders reiterated their demands, Bevin rumbled that it was up to the workers, through toil and discipline, to support their government...