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Soon after the Labor victory in 1945, "Nye" Bevan stood amid the tall black blocks of Bolton's cotton mills in Lancashire and told the assembled workers: "Homes, health, education and social security-these are your birthright." That was quite a different list from the one John Locke had drawn up 260 years ago when he summarized man's inalienable rights as life, liberty and property. For better or worse, most Britons today are more wedded to Bevan's list than to Locke's. "Why is it," exclaimed a tall, exasperated Conservative M.P. over a substantial...
...cost of a national health service had originally been estimated at ?100 million annually, then revised upwards an additional ?61 million by the time the plan went into effect last July. Now, eight months later, Health Minister Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan announced that the Health Service would need ?58,455,000 more than its budget had planned. Thundered Winston Churchill: "Grossest carelessness . . . wild miscalculations...
...Parliament, Britain's blustering Minister of Health Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan got called to personal account for the high cost of socialized dentistry. Demanded M.P. Frank Medlicott: "Has the minister calculated how much of the greatly increased expenditure is caused by the fact that every time he makes a speech there is widespread gnashing of teeth...
Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan, Britain's Health Minister, was a bit embarrassed last week by the public's enthusiasm for government-financed doctoring. He announced: "It seems that an extraordinary proportion of the population has bad sight . . . The health service will fail unless the people use it intelligently, sparingly and prudently...
According to Hiss, "Crosley" was a free-lance writer who had come to him when he was an investigator for the Nye Committee (which investigated the munitions industry during 1934 and 1935). Crosley had asked for help and material in preparing a series of articles. The next summer, Hiss went on, he had sublet his apartment to Crosley, since he had already moved into a house on Georgetown's P Street. Because Crosley also needed a car, said Hiss, he made his old Ford a part of the deal...