At 18, having spent almost half his life in Welsh coal mines, Aneurin Bevan quarreled with his family, decided to seek his fortune in the big world. Coming downstairs, through the warm kitchen with the family seated around a coal fire, young Bevan halted at the door. It was snowing outside. As he hesitated, his father put an arm around his shoulder and said: "Come back, son, there's always a seat at the fireside." Since that day, Nye Bevan's fiery arrivals and quarrelsome departures have played a spectacular part in British Labor politics. In the last two years he has known...
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