Word: bevanism
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...Battle Lost. It was 6 p.m. when Winston Churchill sat down. The leaders of the Opposition, the battle already lost, writhed silently in their parliamentary Coventry. But not Rebel Bevan...
Mission Accomplished. With his fiery forensics, stabbing forefinger and bobbing forelock, Nye Bevan gripped most of the House-but not always, to his chagrin, Winston Churchill. "I do not know what the Right Honorable . . . Prime Minister sees to laugh at," he cried at one point...
...year-old Nye Bevan walked out of the smoke & brimstone a bigger, more powerful man than when the battle started. He and his left-wingers, frankly anxious to jettison Britain's bipartisanship in foreign policy, had forced the Attlee leadership into battle with Churchill. When the rout came, it was Bevan who stepped into the breach...
Next day, at a doleful post-mortem meeting of Labor's executive committee, Bevan generously refrained from mentioning the debacle in Commons, gently persuaded the party to set up a subcommittee to re-examine Labor's position on foreign policy. Bevan and two of his left-wing followers were named to it; Herbert Morrison was pointedly...
...Bevan may often have the streets with him, but inside the Labor Party he runs smack into the powerful antipathy of the conservative Trades Union Congress and Cooperative Union. Right now the trades unions are deeply concerned by Communist attempts to exploit workers' unrest over the sacrifices of rearmament. Last week coal miners in Tonypandy, in Nye Bevan's bailiwick of South Wales, called a mass demonstration against the government and appealed to Bevan to take part. Bevan saw his chance to ingratiate himself with conservatives in his own party. "I refuse," said he, "to partake...