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...Bevan. His message: Let's all us Marxists work together for peace...
...reason is that by long tradition, most of Europe's Socialist leaders are antimilitarists-men who can never quite bring themselves to believe that it is sometimes wiser to spend money on bombers than on welfare programs. And even when, like Bevan, they have been awakened to power realities by political responsibility, they cannot escape the fact that their political strength rests on voters who seem to believe that the only thing that can stave off nuclear holocaust is Western concessions to Moscow...
Then Macmillan turned on Nye Bevan, who, in becoming Labor's shadow Foreign Secretary, has left behind his old left-wing Bevanite crowd. As Bevan sat with face flaming, hands clenched, Macmillan pressed home the final scathing remark: "I feel sorry for him as he gropes about, abandoned by his old friends and colleagues-a shorn Samson surrounded by a bevy of prim and aging Delilahs." Labor's censure motion was defeated by a surprisingly large 70-vote margin...
Still undaunted, the Socialists moved another censure, this time regretting the Tory government's failure to reach an earlier settlement of the Cyprus dispute. Nye Bevan twitted the Tories for dealing with Archbishop Makarios as they had done previously with the Indians and the Irish. "We said we could not 'shake hands with murder,' and then we did shake hands," said Bevan. "We did the same with Nkrumah. Honorable members opposite put him in jail." Came a cry from the Tory benches opposite...
...Moneyman Bevan also reported that Pennsy's earnings were looking up. The road was in the black for November, with earnings wiping out the ten-month deficit of $2,872,716. He expects that the Pennsy will be in the black for the year. For 1959, Bevan was only mildly pessimistic: he warned that unless volume exceeds present expectations, "the earnings outlook is not particularly good...