Aneurin Bevan vs. Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Aneurin Bevan
1897 – 1960
Aneurin "Nye" Bevan PC was a Welsh Labour Party politician, noted for spearheading the creation of the British National Health Service during his tenure as Minister of Health in Clement Attlee's government. He is also known for his wider contribution to the founding of the British welfare state. He was first elected as MP for Ebbw Vale in 1929, and used his Parliamentary platform to make a number of influential criticisms of Winston Churchill and his government during the Second World War.
"We have in this country five or six generals, members of other nations, Czechs, Poles and French, all of them trained in the use of these German weapons and thi…"
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
1830 – 1903
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil may refer to:Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903), British statesman and Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (1864–1958), British politician and diplomat, and an architect of the League of Nations Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury (1893–1972), prominent Tory politician Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 6th Marquess of Salisbury (1916–2003), Conservative Member of Parliament for Bournemouth West Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, Conservative politician
"To give 'the suffrage' to a poor man is to give him as large a part in determining that legislation which is mainly concerned with property as the banker whose …"
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