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Romping past the Royal County Hotel, the paraders roused the day's distinguished guest-that horny veteran of the pits and stormy rebel of the Labor Party, Aneurin Bevan himself. Past his hotel balcony streamed rugged oldtimers who well remembered the "bad old days" Nye Bevan liked so much to talk about, and younger, well-dressed miners and their ladies, with pockets bulging with money-more than enough for each to take a holiday to Paris...
...Laborites had just come from a private meeting of their own, one of the stormiest in years. Rebel Aneurin Bevan, who is louder about his anti-Americanism than his antiCommunism, was now making no secret of his campaign to wrest the party from Moderate Clement Attlee. The Bevan wing demanded a tough vote of censure against Churchill, against the U.S. bombing raids on the Yalu River power plants (TIME, July 7) and against the U.S. conduct of the Korean war. Attlee, concerned for Anglo-American solidarity, adamantly refused to join the movement. He favored only a mild motion censuring Churchill...
...Wise? The left-wing Laborite firebrands of Aneurin Bevan saw the news as a made-in-America chance to clobber both the U.S. and the Conservative government. "If you want to go to war," cried Bevan dramatically, "why not say so?" But this time the hostility did not stop at the left. Winston Churchill, embarrassed and angered by the U.S. failure to consult him in advance of the air raids, made only fitful attempts to douse the diplomatic blaze, and in the main debate he pointedly took no part. Quiet, colorless Clement Attlee, no enemy...
...Clear." In came Nye Bevan from Labor's back bench, with klaxon at full blast. He had, he recalled, supported the late Labor government's decision to fight with the U.S. in Korea, because he believed the North Koreans had started it. But now Nye Bevan, reflecting the view of the pinkish wing of the British press, was questioning even that. "A good many commentators have expressed the view," said he mysteriously, "that there was quite considerable evidence that military moves had been made by the South Koreans ... It was also quite clear that there were certain elements...
...Bevan, the Yalu River bombings represented a new Washington extend-the-war plot, fiendishly timed to take place just when the Korean truce hinged on but one unsolved issue...