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...Downing Street, Prime Minister Attlee conferred endlessly with his cabinet. Everyone thought the other fellow's expenses could be cut, but did not see how his own department could struggle along on any less. Foreign Minister Bevin wanted to cut social services, Health Minister Aneurin Bevan insisted that his housing and health plans were "sacrosanct." Attlee tried to mollify everybody. He was still keeping strict secrecy when he took the plan to Buckingham Palace for the King's approval...
...Bevan's precious health service was untouched, except that Britons will henceforth have to pay a shilling (14?) every time they get a prescription filled. Subsidies on fish and animal feed stuffs would end early next year. Conscription was untouched, but Attlee promised that the defense budget would be cut somewhere, somehow, by ?30 million...
Married. Michael Foot, 36, pamphleteering Laborite M.P., onetime editor of Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard, now editor (with Health Minister Aneurin Bevan's wife, M. P. Jenny Lee) of the Weekly Tribune (circ. 18,-ooo); and Jill Craigie, 35, author-director-producer of documentary films (The Way We Live); in London...
...Aneurin Bevan may whisper like "muted flutes" [TIME, Oct. 10], but, as usual, his words are more noteworthy for sound than sense...
...British Minister of Health "Nye" Bevan went down into the pits when he was 13, and was a miner for eight years...