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...right-Jack, never-had-it-so-good political climate in which Britain's working class celebrated its deliverance from deprivation and indignity. Throughout his career he was consistently portrayed by the press, in Foot's phrase, as "half boor, half buffoon," the Bolshevik Caliban from Ebbw Vale. The Labor Party in the end conferred the leadership on blander, more predictable...
Michael Foot, a close associate of Sevan's and since Nye's death in 1960 the M.P. from his old constituency of Ebbw Vale, has completed what is obviously a labor of love, with personal insights and inside information rarely available to a political biographer. He depicts, to be sure, a Nye in shining armor. He also makes clear that with Bevan's demise the fire went out of the belly of British socialism...
...shutdowns and cutbacks. Last week Germany's Rheinische Stahlwerke, whose industry orders are down to a two-month backlog, cut the work week for 1,500 men. Britain's Richard Thomas & Baldwin-the only large steelmaker still nationalized-announced plans to shut down two open hearths at Ebbw Vale, thus idling 300 men. Giant August Thyssen-Hütte, Europe's biggest steel company, gloomily expects to cut its work hours soon...
...been dead three years-this is Sevan's own brief. It is a sort of ghost-written book, with Foot as ghost, for Biographer Foot was not only a close friend and passionate partisan; he is today what Bevan was-Member of Parliament for the Welsh miners of Ebbw Vale and Socialism's most bitter and intransigent voice in the House of Commons. Thus he can hardly be expected to stress the central irony of Sevan's life: that a man cannot make himself, as Bevan did, an effective tribune of the poor, the obscure...
...with the thoughtless world of privilege that allowed his father to choke to death of a miner's lung disease and never offered a tuppence in workmen's compensation. In 1929 he burst upon Parliament "like some great disturbance of nature" as the new member from Ebbw Vale...