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Then the conference proceeded to elect to the Party's powerful executive committee: Dr. Edith Summerskill, Labor's ablest, fightingest woman M.P.; leftish M.P. Aneurin Bevan, Churchill's bitterest Labor critic in Parliament...
Socialist Greenwood had just lost a fight to expel Nye Bevan from the Party for a revolt against the topside line. He had even threatened to resign if Bevan were upheld. But on the showdown Greenwood had to eat his threat. Defiant Nye Bevan, a onetime Welsh miner and long a loud voice for Labor's militant left, had won a significant victory...
...House of Commons, ambled alone into the House bar, washed down the bitter taste of a bitter defeat with two double Scotches in two minutes. He stood silent and lonely for another five minutes, then ambled away. On his mind was a pink, popeyed Labor rebel named Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan...
...votes to 60, his colleagues declined to discipline Bevan for attacking the Labor Party's Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin and his tough anti-strike regulation (TIME, May 15). Instead, the party caucus proposed to let the whole thing die in committee. Chuckled unrepentant Nye Bevan: "If the Party executive [ruling committee] can keep it quiet at the [annual] Conference they will. But it'll have to come up ... and the rank and file won't let it pass...
Muted Thunder. The unity of the Labor Party was at stake. Bevan had become the voice of a deep unrest, an equally deep suspicion among the working masses on whom the Party depends...