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...Rebel Nye Bevan, ostentatiously docile since the elections, leaped into action. At a secret Labor Party meeting, he had overpowered Leaders Clement Attlee and Herbert Morrison, who were urging mild criticisms of Butler. Bevan, angry over the new health-plan changes, demanded and got a Labor Party decision to move a vote of no confidence against the Tories. It was Attlee in the House who was called upon to move the vote, describing Butler's proposals as "irrelevant, unnecessary and unfair"-but the language was Bevan's. Then from the crowded back benches Nye Bevan rose amidst...
Honorable Mention. "Told you so," jeered the Bevanites. Churchill could not deny it. Taunted by Rebel Nye Bevan, who insisted on quoting his own 1950 warnings that rearmament would wreck Britain's economy, Churchill sarcastically admitted: "I am giving Mr. Bevan an honorable mention in despatches, for having, by accident, perhaps not from the best of motives, happened to be right...
...Socialists behaved the same way with Churchill's proposal to create a new Home Guard, plans for which had been studied while Socialist Manny Shinwell was Minister of Defense. Last week it was Manny Shinwell who led the fight on the bill. Apparently trying to outdo Nye Bevan as a Tory-baiter, Manny kept the House of Commons in session for 20 hours, in the first all night sitting of the new Parliament. Those who stayed awake heard a great deal of cross and petty talk. When Shinwell announced that he needed a bath and a shave, a weary...
...what of Bevan? As of now, Attlee securely holds the party's reins. But many observers, including Lord Beaverbrook's stoutly Tory Daily Express, saw in 53-year-old Nye Bevan the real victor in this election. Despite his popularity in his own constituency, his antics had undoubtedly scared many Liberals into voting Tory. "He can claim," said the Daily Express, "to have brought the Tories to office on terms they may well find embarrassing and unprofitable. In opposition, his star will rise still higher...
...Tories from Socialists. In fact, there are two all-important differences: 1) the difference between the man who believes in free enterprise, and only imposes controls when he sees no alternative, and the man who believes in state ownership and planning for their own sake; 2) the presence of Nye Bevan. No one doubts the patriotism of Mr. Attlee or that of the Labor Party, and Attlee has never weakened on the defense program, but it is evident that if he returned to power he would have trouble putting it over in the face of Bevan's opposition...