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In And Out Of Parliament
BY ERNEST THURTLE, M.P.
MR OLIVER LYTTELTON was the spokesman
chosen to announce Conservative support for Marshall aid. · Ho paid, generous tribute to America, but none, alas, to the Government's struggles against post-war difficulties.
Lyttelton's parliamentary staturo tends to
grow.
Impressive is the word which best describes him. A massive figure, a measured speech, and a pleasant voice which scems to know what it is talking about.
·
Competitors for tho succession to the Con- servative leadership might well regard him with anxiety.
For if he went into serious training I think ho would take some stopping.
But perhaps ho is only a dilettanto amateur?
*
de
RANGED behind the Government at West-
minster these days are quite a number of dropped Ministers. Comment on these fallen ones is apt to be: "They never come back.”
Falsified in the obvious exceptional case of Mr. Dalton, this verdict seems to be broadly ac- curate.
What made Aneurin Bevan the man he is today
Some facts about his early life
What is Ancurin Bevan's background? Is he as embittered a man as his scaring speeches suggest? What truth is there in these stories he tells
so regularly of a childhood of almost intolerable harshness and hardship?
ERIC BENNETT
By
TYE, or Nyren Bevan, as they more usually call him in Tredegar, Monmouth, was born in a four-roomed cot- in Charles-street in tago Novembe. 1897. He was one
of 13 children, of whom eight
were reared.
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His father, David Bevan, was a miner who began life as Liberal and ended as a Labour "rebel."
His mother, Phoobe, who is still alive, is by instinct a true blue Tory.
David Bevan suffered from the Il-health, but although family was poor Mrs Bevan was such a good manager that they never knew poverty.
She bought in bulk for the family; a.tub of butter, a side of bacon, a ham.
She would go to Bristol or Cardiff twice a year to lay in a store of clothes and shoes. She
WAS
a seamstress and also taught sewing,
And she brought up her chil- dren as strict chapel-goers,
At 13, he went into the pit
that pit, and he told me: "The one thing I will not have is the story that Ancurin is lazy.
"He worked in places so bad that he had to keep blowing his lamp to give it enough oxygen to burn. Billy and he were the family wage-earners."
i
"There's nothing in the Mines Act which says I have to,” was Ancurin's retort.
His reading and research were not wholly popular,
was
ques-
At 15. he and Billy were expelled from a chapel Sunday school because Aneurin asking too many tions about the searching
u ndamentallet teaching of Genesis B5
ex- pounded by the Sometimes he would come up Brother Harry.
su perintendent, from the pit on a Saturday so
They Joined exhausted that he would sleep another chapel, the clock round until 5 p.m. on but after the Sunday, when his mother would authorities pro- wake him to go to chapel.
When he was not working Ancurin was reading. He would read any- thing and everything.
Sometimes
after a day in the pit he would sit up all night read- ing, and brother Bill coming down to breakfast would And him stl poring over a book.
When he went on holiday with his friend, Bill Hopkins, he had fow clothes to take, but his bag was. always heavy with books, He spent his holidays reading and talking.
Preached Socialism to crowd of Tories
hotels."
tested thut
Was
As a student at the Contrat Labour Collego in London-age, about 20.
Ancurin using the club. for spreading Socialist propa- ganda
they walked out.
Mrs Bevan did not approve of her con's agitating, and at one time re- But his fused to get him his meals. father, u shrewd old philosopher, backed him.
Police came to arrest him-
By the time he was 19, Aneurin was chairman of the largest miners lodge in South Wales.
He was away making, speeches calling on support for a strike when he got his calling-up papers for the
Was
"At Blackpool," BI Hopkins told me, "I used to have a good time in Army. the pubs or with the girls, and then I would find Nyeon
He arrived home, at midnight, and the North at 12.13 a.m. two policemen came to Shore preaching Socialism to a bunch of Tories from the posh arrest him. His sister May
dying and Ancurin told the police- men if they woke her up he would Young Aneurin did not dis- Aneurin Bevan making a name for
But there was one handicap to kill them..
inviled. the Then he and Billy
made them tea, and tinguish himself at school ex- himself in public life. He stuttered police in.
police Aneurin went off to the cept in essay writing.
station.
asked
His master at the Sirhowy Council School, William Or chuurd, was a disciplinarian of the old type.
He made such an impression on his pupil that Aneurin said later, when he entered public life: "If Mr Orchard suggests anything to any committee on which I am sitting, I am auto matically against it."
badly.
J.
It has been suggested that the stutter was caused by making him for an adjournment of the case to
In court next morning he write with his right hand although consult the Miners' Federation law he was a natural left-hander. That ser.
is untrue.
Aneurin stuttered because his elder brother Billy stuttered. boy was naturally imitative,
The
long walks and rehearse his speeches to him.
At 13, Ancurin left school and walk for miles while Nye
Bill Hopkins, told me: "We would talked went down the pit. A year and all I ever said was "Aye'." later he was at the coal face His wit and cloquence made him working with his brother Billy, a natural leader in the mining val-
leys. who is five years older.
They certainly worked with vigour, and week after week they drow the biggest pay pac
"WE'RE IN THE LEGION NOW"kets in the Ty-trist Fit.
IN CINECOLOR
ALSO 4 REELS "TECHNICOLOR CARTOON"
One of Nye's, bitterest politi. cal opponents in Tredogar to day was a measuring clerk in
NANCY
Drac à S'chs
LIFE IS SOME MONOTONOUS---- SAME THING EVERY
DAY
Told solicitor
to keep quiet
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He cured himself by practico and A week later he reappeared with will power.
a solicitor. He told the solicitor to He went to Dr Edwin Davies for keep quiet and conducted the case. breathing exercises and he
would himself.
It was brief. take his friend Billy Hopkins out for "Is it not a fact," he asked the Bench, "that the chairman of the War Ofice would never call up miner suffering from nystagmus (on eye disease caused by working in bad light)?"
The magistrate agreed.
dramatically pro- Aneurin then duced a medical certificate certify- ing that he was suffering from head- aches due to nystagmus, and, turn- ing to the prosecutor, he said-
have been "I am, not and never to e conscientious objector. I will fight,
but I will choose my own enemy, my own time, and my own bottle- field, and I won't have you do it for me."
Even as a boy he questioned authority
Even as a boy he was quick question authority.
"Why don't you take your waist coat off?" an under manager asked him underground one day.
JUST. FOR A CHANGE
I THINK I'LL TALK BACKWARDS"
TODAY
---WOW 21ZIHT KUA
MAD I WON
M'I TAHW: TOMIYAR
won
At least four Right Honourable ex-Ministers of the Government- Bellenger, Lawson, Wilmot and Westwood-now sit unnoticed among the back bench crowd.
So, too, do numbers of deposed junior Ministers.
But it would be unfair and un- generous to any of them that they are those who have been tried and found wanting. In fact they typify the uncertainties of political life.
Authority smiled on them for a time, then turned its gaze elsewhere. miner's So they exchanged fie spotlight for Labour the shadows
At 20 Bevan scholarship to the Central College in London.
There is a story that the miners subscribed to send him there. They did not.
Let us hope they are philosophers enough not to care two hoots.
of political fortune.
They had a whip-round and col- AND here a story of swift change lected about £40 for pocket money and Incidental expènse.
Bovan came back from college with more learning but no job.
A short time before the fall of the Labour Government of 1931 I stood at the bar of the House beside the Into Sir Godfrey Colins.
Ho remarked somewhat despon- dently to me that the future loy with us Labour people, and that men like himse (a Liberal) bost nothing to ten
Not popular then with the minera During the next three years had only one spell of work; weeks of pipe laying in Charles Street, where he was born.
And that job
was only put
he
on
Yet a few months later, after MacDonald's "National" Government was formed, Sir Godfrey became Secretary for Scotland with a seat in the Cabineti
to give the men a chance to earn the necessary insurance stamps to qualify for unemployment benefit.
His mother used to bring ica out to him and his mates, and BillDONALD MACKAY, of N.W, Hull,
A continues to knock loudly Hopkins, who worked keside him, says that "Nye slogged so hard at Government's door, the job that blood from his hands ran down the handle of his pick.
the
the
on
Was
He made an excellent speech the Marshall old motion, and devastating in his rebuttal of the that Eastern Europe was
It was during this unemployment suggestion to provide an alterna-
local council offices.
to
Aneurin was not popular with the economic probes, and inspires
miners
CX-
at this period Tho Servicemen looked upon him as stay-at-home C.O. and would have none of him.
In a spell that the only wage-earner in the Bevan home was his younger tive to American assistance.
Bevon There is a forward-looking, realis- alster, now Mrs Arianwen Norris, at the time employed in the the quality about his approach
British + and Western European
which
impresses many of his the feeling that he might be a useful man inside the Government
is known to his intimates -
his This nickname, given to him as them a boy In Australia at a time when Kipling's story was enjoying a great Vogue, has stuck to him ever since.
T
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But as the years passed, his eloquence, his knowledge, and sense of social justice won round. ---They subscribed pennies to give him Ed a week as a dispute agent. He was elected to the local council
ILBERT CHESTERTON, in soma and later to the county council
weit-known lines, once exhorted In 1020 they sent him to Parila-the first Lord Birkenhead to "Chuck
old it, Smith."
ment as member for Ebbw Vale, But back In Tredegar same
WAS
His catrance to Parliament electric. His burning Welsh oratory scared a Commons that had become dialectically: humdrum. His violent gestures fascinated members.
་་
With apologies to Chesterton, I friends say: "Maybe it would have feel I must say to my friend the been better for us if we had kept Minister of Health: "Chuck II, Nye," him back here."
You do not believe your opponents are "lower than vermin." Then why
you, above all, do not stand need of any such dubious platform. aid. Nature has so endowed vou enthuse oratorically that you can
of your listeners without this sort ippse.
Moreover, you provide our op- ponents with ammunition.
His rudenes was fascinating
"Nyo" became one of the darlings of Mayfair. His rudeness was fas- cinating.
He never forget to be harsh and bitter. Lord Castlerosse in those days called him "the Bollinger, Bol- chevik."
register Ancurin married, In à office in 1934 Miss Jennie Lee, They daughter of a Scottish miner, never used a wedding ring at the nover ceremony, and Jennie has owned or worn one.
They live with her parents in restored bombed house in Cliveden
There Place, near Sloane Square. Ancurin strokes a Siamese cat called Smoicy.
The Bevans have no children, but Aneurin loves to
his play with friends' children.
to
For all his terrific powers of in- -vective, ranging from acid wit
downright abuse, he can be infindiely gentle with children.
And even with grown-ups when they are congenial to him.
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