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...this week's cover story on Prime Minister Anthony Eden and the British general election campaign, half a dozen TIME correspondents took to the hustings in pursuit of Tory, Labor and Liberal candidates of all ranks. In Scotland to cover Nye Bevan's tour, the London bureau's Robert Lubar wondered how the Laborite rebel would like being shadowed by a U.S. newsman. As it turned out, Bevan liked it fine. He began by taking Lubar to task for what he said was TIME'S rough treatment of him. "But you thrive on it," Lubar remarked...
With that, Bevan guffawed and took Lubar into his official party. When asked what he would talk about at a rally one night, Bevan nodded toward Lubar and rumbled...
Papering Over. Labor's first disadvantage is its divided house. Nye Bevan is playing the good boy now. The party rift has been papered over with an innocuous manifesto composed at the leadership's bidding by two of the noisiest Bevanites : Richard Grossman and Tom Driberg...
...wife Violet, got an affectionate wel come everywhere. City-bred Herbert Mor rison, the party's No. 2, headed for Lancashire with his bride, a Lancashire lass, to try his cockney wit in a strategic voting area where he can now claim kinship. Rebel Rouser Aneurin Bevan careened through the industrial towns and docksides to roll his rich Welsh voice behind Bevanite candidates and Bevanite notions. In a manner reminiscent of days gone by, when he likened the Tories to "vermin," Nye got off to an impish start by likening the Tories to the biblical Gadarene swine. ("I would...
...that, however, was now forgotten. "There's nothing like the threat of annihilation," said one Laborite, "to bring chaps together." In a quiet meeting of the parliamentary Labor party, ousted Bevan was taken back into the fold without a whisper of opposition, and in the party manifesto outlining Labor's platform, Nye Sevan's stand against the nuclear bomb took first place, followed by the usual biting condemnation of everything Tory...