On the " appointed day ", 5 July 1948, having overcome political opposition from both the Conservative Party and from within his own party, and after a dramatic showdown with the British Medical Association, which had threatened to derail the National Health Service scheme before it had even begun, as medical practitioners continued to withhold their support just months before the launch of the service, Bevan's National Health Service Act of 1946 came into force.

After the Labour landslide election victory of 1945, Bevan joined Clement Attlee's government and formally left the paper, leaving Mullally and Evelyn Anderson as joint editors, with Foot playing Bevan's role of political director.

According to Michael Foot, Nye Bevan regarded this as " a calculated affront to himself ", Clements having previously leaked the details of heated discussions involving Bevan, Jennie Lee ( Bevan's wife ) and Foot over which political position the Labour party should take regarding the nuclear bomb.

While this was not an insignificant achievement, Bevan's rate of housebuilding was seen as less of an achievement than that of his Conservative ( indirect ) successor, Harold Macmillan, who was able to complete some 300, 000 a year as Minister for Housing in the 1950s.

According to the journalist Paul Routledge, Donald Bruce, a former MP and Parliamentary Private Secretary and adviser to Bevan, had told him that Bevan's shift on the disarmament issue was the result of discussions with the Soviet government where they advised him to push for British retention of nuclear weapons so they could possibly be used as a bargaining chip in negotiations with the United States.

After Foot was re-elected to Parliament in 1960 for Bevan's old seat of Ebbw Vale, Richard Clements became editor.

Easter Monday 1962 saw Brian Bevan's last match for Warrington.

He scored 1, 506 runs to break Michael Bevan's all-time Pura Cup / Sheffield Shield record for runs in a season as NSW romped home undefeated to claim their 45th title.

Whether Knight would have had Bevan's success had he been used in a similar " finishing " position is debatable but Knight could certainly have played more ODIs for England than he did.

The other, a mural showing Bevan's face made from ' Primrose and Blue ' bricks, the traditional Warrington colours was created specifically for the location.

Griffiths's most recent teleplay, Food for Ravens ( BBC, 15 November 1997 ), was commissioned to mark the 100th anniversary of Aneurin Bevan's birth, but at one point the BBC decided not to network the play, and instead restrict it to Wales.

After the Labour Party lost the general election later that year, he was made chairman of Bevan's ' Keep Left ' group, but shortly thereafter he distanced himself from Bevan.

See Bevan's speeches Later the same year, the Labour party lost power in a general election.

* Excerpts from Bevan's speeches are included in Greg Rosen's Old Labour to New, Methuen, 2005.

The then Labour party leader Michael Foot, who had won Ebbw Vale in the by-election following Bevan's death, was the seat's first MP.

Blaenau Gwent is often referred to as Aneurin Bevan's old constituency.

Bevan's successor as Minister of Health is not in the cabinet.

By coincidence, it was Bevan's further resignation from the Shadow Cabinet in 1954 that put Wilson back on the front bench ( as a spokesman, initially, on finance ).

Both Bevan's parents were Nonconformists ; his father was a Baptist and his mother a Methodist.

Wood's " Ben Crawley Steel Company " featured a Bevan lead vocal that was modelled on Johnny Cash, while Bevan's " Don't Mess Me Up " ( sung by Wood ) paid homage to Elvis Presley, complete with fake Jordanaires.

The title of the paper was a reworking of the title of Nye Bevan's book In Place of Fear.

A joint exhibition with Paul at the Dorien Leigh Gallery, London, in 1913 was successful, and John was invited to become a founder-member of the London Group in 1914, and to join Robert Bevan's Cumberland Market Group in 1915.

However, the constituency was created in 1983, twenty-three years after Bevan's death, from the upper part of the former Abertillery constituency, the town of Brynmawr from the Brecon and Radcor constituency, and Bevan's old Ebbw Vale seat with the exception of the village of Abertysswg.

* Nye Bevan on The Guardian's Greatest Speeches of the 20th Century site, featuring full audio of Bevan's speech at the 4th November 1956 Trafalgar Square rally against British action in Suez.

In 2004, after the death of Wayne, Bevan formed The Bev Bevan Band, soon renamed as Bev Bevan's Move ( without any other past members ) to capitalize on The Move's continuing reputation and belated success.

I was puzzled by the remark, then I recalled the voice of mild Professor Howard Griggs three years ago in a university lecture on primitive societies.

If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.

On that view, nothing good or bad happened in the case until I came on the scene and made my remark.

For what I express in my remark is something going on in me at the time, and that of course did not exist until I did come on the scene.

I suppose I should have paid attention to that half-murmured remark, but it seemed one of those extreme statements women under stress indulge in.

That will get you in a lot of trouble ," when I remark that some picture or writer or director or producer is no good.

I beg farther to remark, if my theory and pretensions, as to the nature, cause, and extent of the phenomena of nervous sleep hypnotism have none of the fascinations of the transcendental to captivate the lovers of the marvellous, the credulous and enthusiastic, which the pretensions and alleged occult agency of the mesmerists have, still I hope my views will not be the less acceptable to honest and sober-minded men, because they are all level to our comprehension, and reconcilable with well-known physiological and psychological principles.

In an often quoted remark, Gould stated, " Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists — whether through design or stupidity, I do not know — as admitting that the fossil record includes no transitional forms.

Gretzky would later remark that the Soviet National Team's practice drills, which impressed Canada in 1972, had nothing to offer him: " I'd been doing these drills since I was three.

* August 11 – The Beatles hold a press conference in Chicago, during which John Lennon apologizes for his " more popular than Jesus " remark, saying, " I didn't mean it as a lousy anti-religious thing.

Ludwig Wittgenstein made a remark recorded by Friedrich Waismann: " To be sure, I can imagine what Heidegger means by being and anxiety " which has been construed by some commentators as sympathetic to Heidegger's philosophical approach.

Then on 11 April, was a riot in Brixton and when on 13 April Thatcher was quoted Powell's remark that " We have seen nothing yet " by an interviewer she replied: " I heard him say that and I thought it was a very very alarming remark.

As Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy told Eisenhower: " Lincoln's remark after they got after Grant comes to mind when I think of Patton – ' I can't spare this man, he fights '.

Workers were supposed to “ grasp revolution and promote productions ”, while peasants were supposed to raise more pigs because “ more pigs means more manure, and more manure means more grain .” Even a casual remark by Mao, “ Sweet potato tastes good ; I like it ” became a slogan everywhere in the countryside.

:* Termination: If you don't want your subject to know what you are doing, you simply distract their attention, usually by some appropriate remark, and casually terminate.

Her response deflates Holden's mood and prompts his remark: " You give me a royal pain in the ass, if you want to know the truth.

However, an increasingly difficult relationship with Unionist parties meant her role in the talks was ultimately taken over by Tony Blair and his staff, prompting Mowlam to remark to then-US President Bill Clinton " Didn't you know?

I know that ’ s quite a strong remark to make, but if you ask a cluster headache patient if they ’ ve had a worse experience, they ’ ll universally say they haven't.

His remark from an interview in support of SETI, " We could be in the middle of an intergalactic conversation ... and we wouldn't even know.

") she asked her mother-in-law if she ever dealt with such absurdity, causing Florence to remark, " Well, I'm sure that he has been around at least since I was a little girl ," in which there is a flashback to Florence's childhood with her father demanding to know, " Who scratched my new Glenn Miller record ?," and " Not Me " smugly standing by.

Jerome's reference, his remark that Lactantius was a pupil of Arnobius and the surviving treatise are all that we know about Arnobius.

When Meeks first announced their departure months prior to its conceiving, and without label confirmation, he gave a less than positive remark, stating " It's like a journey in the wilderness-you know with like the struggle and stuff.

The Outsiders were confused by that remark, leading Mallah to laugh and comment: " You mean they don't know what you are?

" live on the air ( Heenan has since stated that he didn't know it was Pillman grabbing him and he blurted out the remark because he thought he was a fan grabbing him ).

Grayson's " monocled dandy " remark let Gregory know that he was in danger of being exposed.

A remark made by one of them implies that at that stage they do not even know Tintin by name, only reputation.

") Maxwell points out several places in which Falcoff misquoted documents in ways favorable to Kissinger, for example changing a remark of Kissinger's, talking to Nixon on the phone about the coup, from " Well we didn't – as you know – our hand doesn ’ t show on this one though ," to simply " We didn't do it.

Those who are acquainted with the veterinary art, know this well ; but as for us who have not made a study of this science, we seem not to discover or remark these faults.

Writer William Gibson made a similar remark in a 2007 interview: No one except possibly the late John Brunner, in his brilliant novel " The Sheep Look Up ," has ever described anything in science fiction that is remotely like the reality of 2007 as we know it.

To identify the man, a letter with the sack suggests that anyone who claims to know what the advice was should write the remark down and submit it to Reverend Burgess, who will open the sack at a public meeting and find the actual remark inside.

This is how you may know that I am speaking the truth and that the Spartans are the best educated in philosophy and speaking: if you talk to any ordinary Spartan, he seems to be stupid, but eventually, like an expert marksman, he shoots in some brief remark that proves you to be only a child.