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Amongst the Tawies [Bevan's habitual pronunciation of Tories] there is peace and harmony-as there is in a graveyard...
Around dour Glasgow, there were seats to be won or lost by the hair of a sporran. Stubby Scotsmen in sack suits, caps pulled down and pipes jutting from the crags of their faces, listened to the rough organ music of Aneurin Bevan. "In the Labor Party, it's true we've been having an argument about the hydrogen bomb, and I've been in the middle of it to a certain extent." The crowd laughed appreciatively at his understatement. "We argue . . . over our policy . . . We don't reach our policy in quiet country houses...
...gamble was, of course, carefully calculated and nicely timed. As the campaign got going, the London bookies' odds (4 to 1) sharply favored the Conservatives. The Conservatives were ostensibly united and plainly well organized; the Laborites were divided between Attlee moderates and Nye Bevan rebels. The Tories could point to the highest level of prosperity in Britain's history, achieved while shucking off the controls which war and Socialist experimenting had imposed. The News Chronicle's Gallup poll last week showed a 2½% edge for the Tories, a gain of 2% from late April. But above...
...some, the Big Four move was a dirty American trick. "President Eisenhower has never believed that any good will come out of top-level talks," said Laborite Woodrow Wyatt. "All he is trying to do is to prevent the Labor Party from winning." Nye Bevan added bitterly, "There is no government in Great Britain that the American millionaires want more than a British government which represents British millionaires...
...Bevan, by contrast, was all slash and stab. "The Tawies have got the difficult task ... of trying to persuade the poor to vote the rich back into power . . . Eden has been the best-looking man in British politics for 40 years . . . He's been sitting on his charger waiting for Sir Winston to ride and . . . now he's a bit saddle-sore...