"The Right Honorable Aneurin Bevan, M.P., Minister of Labor and National Service, having tendered his resignation, the King has been pleased to accept it." With this traditional formula, the biggest internal crisis in the six-year-old Labor regime was made official this week.
"Nye" Bevan, leader of Labor's left wing, which Prime Minister Clement Attlee has tried long and hard to appease, walked out after charging in effect that Attlee was betraying Labor party principles, that the government would split and collapse as Ramsay MacDonald's did in
Attlee in his reply tried to reduce...
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