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...widespread discontent with Labor's leadership. The murmurs had become shouts after Labor's electoral defeat. The Laborite Daily Mirror headlined: ATTLEE MUST GO. Bevanites insisted that Attlee's moderation had cost them the election, that the party must recover its evangelistic fervor - preferably under Nye Bevan himself. Supporters of young (49) Right Winger Hugh Gaitskell hinted that Labor's leadership had become...
Last week Clem Attlee announced his decision to a meeting of the Labor M.P.s: he would definitely resign at the end of the present session of the House in. July 1956. Up leaped Bevan himself. "No!" cried Bevan. "Clem, I implore you not to fix a time for your departure." It would only encourage rivalries just when the party needed to draw its warring factions together, he pleaded. Bevan added quietly: "I have no personal ambitions for leadership at this moment . . . I have no intention of forcing a contest...
...surprise and relief, most Laborites broke into cheers. But only silence came from Gaitskell's supporters, who had seen in Attlee's departure Gaitskell's chance for promotion. For Bevan, it was a shrewd move. The election had cost him three of his top supporters in the House, and cut the majorities of others. It was no time to make a bid for power. And he had repaid a debt to Attlee, who saved him from expulsion last March. After a short debate, Bevan rose to ask Attlee: "Well, what is your answer?" Attlee rose...
...planes thunder in the sky, two owls sit thunderstruck upon a tree, looking like two elderly British industrialists who have just been informed of Aneurin Bevan's election to their club...
...Aneurin Bevan, Engineer Herbert Hoover, Philosopher Bertrand Russell, Actress Lillian Gish. The books and authors discussed were and continue to be uncompromisingly first class, from Aeschylus and Aristotle to Balzac and Brillat-Savarin, from Dante and Dostoevsky to Thucydides and Thackeray. Invitation to Learning is the only network program in the U.S. to devote full half-hour discussions consistently to such books as Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Aquinas' Being and Essence, and Agricola's De Re Metallica...