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Behind closed doors, the 18 members of the party's "shadow cabinet" considered not whether to punish Nye Bevan, but how. By questioning and taunting Party Chief Clement Attlee on the floor of the House of Commons during the defense debate (TIME, March 14), the rambunctious Welshman had handed his opponents an opportunity. They did not question Bevan's refusal to vote with the party in censuring the Tory government's defense plans, for 62 other Laborites, many of them pacifists, had abstained also...
...varsity rugby team, bolstered by six English-trained players, began practicing this week. The six, a Welshman, a South African, and four Englishmen, figure to give the team a big boost in this year's four game schedule, according to Rob Albert, team captain...
Died. William Ewert Berry, first Viscount Camrose, 74, editor in chief and chairman of the Daily Telegraph, largest of Britain's prestige dailies; of a heart attack; in Southampton, England. Welshman Berry and his brother, now Viscount Kemsley, built the world's largest one-family publishing empire (32 newspapers and 74 magazines...
...late Dylan Thomas, one of the best poets of his generation, could also write and speak lively, perceptive prose. Last October, home between U.S. lecture tours, Welshman Thomas recorded a broadcast for the BBC. Last week in the BBC's magazine The Listener, U.S. citizens got a chance to read what Thomas had to say about "A Visit to America...
...year's obituary list, not even counting Joe Stalin and Bob Taft, was forbiddingly distinguished: Eugene O'Neill, the greatest playwright the U.S. had produced; Welshman Dylan Thomas, the best young poet in the English language; Sergei Prokofiev, Russia's great composer; General Jonathan Wainwright, hero of Bataan; Mayor Ernst Reuter, hero of the cold-war battle of Berlin; Saudi Arabia's fabulous King Ibn Saud; Britain's redoubtable Queen Mary...