Abstract

Bevan's Rebellion

People in the Great Britain are absorbed in a great debate as to whether cabinet minister Aneaxia Bevan's resignation from the Labor Cabinet was an ear-splitting bang as a man earmarked for power by history thundered his answer to history's call or just a whimper in the night as a peevish politician went off to sulk in the wilderness. A meeting of the Labor Party's national executive to discuss the crisis ended with a vote of twenty to four against Bevan. A meeting of the executive of the Trades Unions Congress later in the day produced a vote of thirteen to six against him. At a Glasgow conference of delegates from all Scottish trade unions the executive introduced a resolution supporting the Cabinet against Bevan. In a stormy scene the delegates rejected the resolution and put up one of their own supporting Bevan's criticisms and it was passed by an overwhelming majority.