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Aneurin Bevan

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Also known as Nye Bevan

Welsh politician (1897-1960)

Person · Open Library

Born
1897
Died
1960
Works
11

Top works

  • It need not happen
  • In place of fear
  • Aneurin Bevan
  • Aneurin Bevan on the National Health Service
  • Bevan vous parle

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1897-11-15
Active to
1960-07-06

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Listeners
8
Total plays
14

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Quotes

  • He is a man suffering from petrified adolescence....He is an extrovert, a picture thinker. He has intelligence but no intellect....He really has the values of a boy of seventeen to eighteen but he makes them sound like mature judgments by his sophisticated speech.
  • I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a kind of desiccated calculating-machine who must not in any way permit himself to be swayed by indignation. If he sees suffering, privation or injustice, he must not allow it to move him, for that would be evidence of the lack of proper education or of absence of self-control. He must speak in calm and objective accents and talk about a dying child in the same way as he would about the pieces inside an internal combustion engine.
  • Damn it all, you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
  • A free people will always refuse to put up with preventable poverty. If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution. The problem of how to prevent these three forces from coming into head-on collision is the principal study of the more politically conscious Conservative leaders. How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.
  • Listening to a speech by Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's: everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.
  • I stuffed their mouths with gold.

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Key facts

Leader
Hugh Gaitskell
Preceded by
Jim Griffiths
Succeeded by
George Brown
Prime minister
Clement Attlee
Born
( 1897-11-15 ) 15 November 1897, Tredegar , Monmouthshire (historic), Wales
Died
6 July 1960 (1960-07-06) (aged 62), Chesham , Buckinghamshire, England
Party
Labour
Spouse
Jennie Lee ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1934 ) ​
Alma mater
Central Labour College , London

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Aneurin Bevan
date of birth
1897-11-15
date of death
1960-07-06
name in native language
Aneurin Bevan
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MP for Ebbw Vale (1929–1960)

Tribune editor (1940–1945)

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