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...diplomats in London have been telling the British for months that the only solution for their economic plight is to cut loose from the U.S. and trade with Russia. The British government and many Britons know that this is a trap, but there are plenty of people (notably Aneurin Sevan's followers) who are willing to listen. It is the same in the rest of Western Europe, where growing islands of unemployment have appeared in recent months. Owners of processing plants in Antwerp, fisheries in Trondheim, boiler works in Lille, olive groves in Tuscany, all cocked...
...Rebel Aneurin Bevan piled up a heavier than usual majority in the Welsh constituency of Ebbw Vale. The two Ministers who resigned with him, Harold Wilson and John Freeman, held their seats. So did the rest of the small camp of Bev-anites, including Sevan's own wife, Jennie Lee. Mr. and Mrs. Bevan are the only man & wife team in the House of Commons. ¶ In Plymouth, John Jacob Astor, parachutist son of a famed spitfire parliamentarian, Lady Astor, wrested his mother's old Commons seat from Laborite Lucy Annie Middleton by 710 votes. Brother William Waldorf...
...Wants to Be? Many British readers were outraged by the fact that (as one put it) "the unspeakable, anti-British, anti-empire and pro-Communist Bevan" should be allowed to publicize himself and "his Moscow-trained Communist dictator friend Tito" in a "decent . . . newspaper." The Standard, owned by Sevan's personal friend and political enemy Lord Beaverbrook, replied that Mr. Sevan's report had been printed "because it is news...
...Welsh constituency. He warned again that rearmament meant economic dislocation. Bevan protested that he was not anti-American-in fact, said he, some of his best friends were Americans. But "It is not necessary for mankind to walk the way Russia has walked or ... the way America still walks." Sevan's red-headed ally, Barbara Castle, M.P. from Blackburn and one of Labor's left-wing firebrands, went barnstorming in Lancashire. For the time being, Attlee had saved his government. But the fact remains that Bevan. and a handful of followers, by voting with the Conservatives...
Britain's assured Health Minister Aneurin ("Nye") Sevan was certain that socialized medicine was getting more popular with British doctors. Said he to a group of Durham miners: "I will almost make you a promise that before very long the British Medical Association will put up a statue . . . called...