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Facts to be Faced. To set the convention's stage, vinegary Labor M. P. Aneurin Bevan wrote an open letter in his weekly Tribune "To Any Labor Delegate...
Herbert Morrison, who has a way with words, seemed to agree with Bevan, seemed prepared to give Laborites the leadership they have so long lacked. Said he : "For us it is leadership or decay. . . . [Membership] figures show the absolute necessity for our Party, if it wishes to get its policies carried out, to gain the support of great numbers outside its own ranks. . . . This will not be done by reiterating the platitudes of the Party meeting hall. ... It is not enough to get up and thump the table and talk about the socialization of all the means of production, distribution...
...House of Commons calendar last week Question No. 45 had been put down by Welsh Laborite Aneurin Bevan, who delights in baiting the Churchill bull. Question No. 45: "To ask the Prime Minister whether he is aware that a letter appeared in the Evening Standard . . . written by a serving officer attached to an intelligence unit in North Africa. ..." The officer: Winston's only son, Major Randolph Churchill...
...Bevan leaned from the charge and planted a banderilla in the bull's shoulder: "Does the Prime Minister realize that we are broadcasting to France every night asking them to sabotage, and this officer commends those who shoot Frenchmen who are obeying our instructions?" The bull never even turned his head; no one could tell whether he even felt the sting...
...shrillest voice raised was that of Jennie Lee, onetime M.P. and wife of Labor M.P. Aneurin Bevan. Wrote Leftist Lee to the New Republic: "We over here are wondering what in God's name American diplomacy is driving at. We don't like Darlan. We don't like Franco. We don't like the idea of asking decent men to die if it is only in order to make a new Europe congenial to such as those. Justly or un justly, the American State Department is being given the credit for having brought to our side...