Word: welshmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unchastened, Bevan put a restless foot back in his nimble mouth. Opening a maternity hospital at Holyhead, he said that men of Celtic fire were needed to bring about great reforms like the new health service. That was why, he explained, Welshmen were put in charge instead of "the bovine and phlegmatic Anglo-Saxons." How Bevan's Labor associates, including Anglo-Saxons Attlee, Morrison and Bevin, liked that one was not revealed. Unphlegmatic Anglo-Saxon Winston Churchill, however, put his head down and charged. Said he: "We speak of the Minister of Health-but ought we not rather...
...every year since the modern Eisteddfod (pronounced eye-steth-vud, means "get together") began in the 18th Century, men & women from all Wales and Welshmen from all parts of the world came to sing around the Druids' Circle, marked out last week by old moss-covered stones in a cool oak-shaded glade just outside Mountain Ash. They heard the venerable Arch Druid (Congregationalist Minister Crwys Williams) open the six-day festival with the traditional words, "A oes heddwch-Is it peace?" The voices of 11,000 Welsh miners and farmers cried an answering "Heddwch!" The Arch Druid smiled...
Timoshenko & Welshmen...