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...former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Gaitskell. -The Rivals. Oxford-bred Hugh Gaitskell, sharp-witted and sharp-tongued, was once considered too donnish for the workingman, but now at 49, he has become the right-wing trade unionists' favorite candidate against the rambunctious but embittered left-winger Nye Bevan...
Gaitskell accused Butler of deliberately misleading Britons with his talk of Tory prosperity. "Always an expert on evasion, he has become an addict of the easy half-truth." The Socialist's peroration was one of the bitterest personal attacks the House of Commons has heard since the Churchill-Bevan feuds. "I bear [the Chancellor] no personal animosity,'' Gaitskell said. "But his record in this past year is frankly deplorable . . . He began in folly, he continued in deceit, and he has ended in reaction . . . Let him go to the Prime Minister and . . . lay down the burden...
Jolly Old Electorate. From the outset, it was clear that the moderates were in firm control. Fractious Nye Bevan noisily challenged Hugh Gaitskell, whom he considers his chief antagonist and rival, for the post of party treasurer. Gaitskell won by a 5-to-1 margin. The defeat seemed only to inspire Bevan to new onslaughts. He charged that the party has become dominated by the huge trade unions. Labor's answer to the Tories, he shouted, should be not change but a return to the old hellfire Socialism and nationalization of almost everything. "You are not Socialists!" he thundered...
...leader "brought up in the present age and not, as I was, in the Victorian age." It was a polite way of suggesting that Morrison would be expected to make way for a younger man before the next election, probably in 1960. Two such candidates are radical "Nye" Bevan, 57, the tough and noisy non-Victorian from the Welsh coalpits, and moderate Economist Hugh Gaitskell, 49, the scholarly-looking favorite of the big trade unions. Gaitskell is by far the stronger candidate. A skillful debater whose economic ideas are so similar to those of Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer...
Last week the Communists proclaimed a "general strike." Nominally, the strike was a protest against the arrest of six of their leaders, but its real aim was to embarrass the new leftist government of David Marshall. Chief Minister Marshall, a fast-talking criminal lawyer who greatly admires Nye Bevan, horrified Singapore's starchy Britishers by winning the colony's first election two months ago. His election also aroused the Communists, who resented his stealing their campaign for self-government away from them. Moving into action, the Communist strike organizers halted bus lines, picketed pineapple canneries, granite quarries, rubber...