Word: nye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he was merely summarizing, not quoting, from the Labor Cabinet paper. Hapless Herbert Morrison yelped in pain, "I think it is unusual, doubtful in taste and constitutional propriety for the Prime Minis. ter to delve into the papers of his predecessors." But the House Speaker waved him down. Nye Bevan pounded in like the surf. Churchill's report, he cried, "may be a lying summary...
Mission Accomplished. With his fiery forensics, stabbing forefinger and bobbing forelock, Nye Bevan gripped most of the House-but not always, to his chagrin, Winston Churchill. "I do not know what the Right Honorable . . . Prime Minister sees to laugh at," he cried at one point...
...year-old Nye Bevan walked out of the smoke & brimstone a bigger, more powerful man than when the battle started. He and his left-wingers, frankly anxious to jettison Britain's bipartisanship in foreign policy, had forced the Attlee leadership into battle with Churchill. When the rout came, it was Bevan who stepped into the breach...
...Nye Bevan may often have the streets with him, but inside the Labor Party he runs smack into the powerful antipathy of the conservative Trades Union Congress and Cooperative Union. Right now the trades unions are deeply concerned by Communist attempts to exploit workers' unrest over the sacrifices of rearmament. Last week coal miners in Tonypandy, in Nye Bevan's bailiwick of South Wales, called a mass demonstration against the government and appealed to Bevan to take part. Bevan saw his chance to ingratiate himself with conservatives in his own party. "I refuse," said he, "to partake...
...quite a week for Nye Bevan. He was much too shrewd to try now to wrest party control from Attlee, Morrison & Co.: why split the party when things are going his way? "One wave may shudder the cliff," explained a Bevan strategist, "but it's the steady tide that wears it away...