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...same time that Anthony Eden made Britain's commitment toward German sovereignty and rearmament, Britain's most reckless statesman made a last-ditch effort to exploit the fears and emotions aroused by that issue. Aneurin Bevan did not conceal his purpose: to wrest the Labor Party's leadership from the temperate hands of Clement Attlee...
Last month Cassandra publicly confessed that he has changed his mind. He made his confession while giving advice to left-wing Laborite M.P. Aneurin Bevan, who, like Attlee, had also just returned from the Far East. Cassandra urged Bevan to make a trip to the U.S. Wrote Cassandra : "When you have made up your mind to dislike people, it is disturbing when you discover that they are very likable persons indeed. And by far the great majority of Americans are friendly and generous to a degree that you do not always find in these islands. Going around disapproving of Americans...
Attlee was more concerned with the annual Labor Party Congress opening this week at Scarborough. There, Attlee and his moderates would be engaged in a fight with the left-wing rebels of Aneurin Bevan over German rearmament...
Last week, riding in a gleaming, Japanese-built parlor car behind an old, Philadelphia-built locomotive decorated with the red stars of Mao Tse-tung's China, British Laborites Clement Attlee, Aneurin Bevan and their six fellow travelers emerged from three weeks behind the Iron Curtain to roll across the Lo Wu bridge in luxurious oblivion of the lowly footpath beneath them. In Hong Kong the touring Laborites parted company: Attlee to go to Australia, Bevan and the others to visit Japan. But behind them in Red China, they had obligingly left with Chinese newsmen a joint declaration that...
...days in Peking, the British pilgrims flew on to Manchuria. As they departed, Peking was aglow with the kind words they left behind. Said Clem Attlee: "We sympathized with the Chinese people in their long struggle . . . against the forces of reaction and wish well to the New China." Said Aneurin Bevan: "Our presence is sufficient to show our support for the Chinese People's Revolution...