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...high-but then it is usually followed by one that comes up even higher still." But Clem Attlee's thin voice did not carry conviction. "Differences within our ranks," he said. "That has done us a lot of harm." The man responsible for the "differences," Rebel Aneurin Bevan, was ready to blame Labor's defeat on the party leadership's milksopping me-tooism, though his own divisive tactics and his class-hating rancor probably drove away more votes than his flaming oratory brought out. Bevan himself dropped more than 2,000 in his own coal-mining stomping...
...leadership lacks a program. Cockney Herbert Morrison, 67, a cheerful and clever but not very profound man, is in line for Attlee's leadership; after him comes the aggressive and younger (49) Hugh Gaitskell, who is able but brittle, admired but not loved. Both are violently anti-Bevan...
...government wants the running to be slow and easy, to keep tempers down and issues blurred," grumped Leftwinger Aneurin Bevan, the campaign's most vigorous performer. Even he conceded: "So far they have succeeded." To console themselves, Laborites reminded one another of Harry Truman...
...pulpit as the center of attention. Tory defenders and Socialist contenders will wage their final battle on each Britisher's ballot. Yet the very fact of Graham's large turnouts suggests that few election issues have been not enough to divert interest from him. Although some Labourites, like Aneurin Bevan, have themselves campaigned as evangelists, the general prediction of both bookies and "univacs" is that Britain feels it's not time for a change...
...election balance to the Conservatives. Britain called in the Socialists after the War because its economy required strict domestic reforms, but now they are unwanted. Both parties have had to promise to tread softly in foreign matters, because the present state of word affairs does not sanction radical changes. Bevan has recognized how this lack of glaring issues has weakened Labour's appeal; he last week came out for a neutralized and disarmed Germany. But the Socialists have found themselves unable to follow him. Nonetheless, an election is not won until it is over. Billy Graham or not, the Britisher...