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...astonishingly stubborn and durable. Sir Winston Churchill, though his resignation as Prime Minister seemed to grow more likely as the reported date for it (April 5) approached, devoted the week to a teasing demonstration that at 80 he is still the most dashing performer on the political stage. Aneurin Bevan, Labor's unruly Welshman, cockily sat by while the leaders who were going to expel him split apart and handed him a reprieve...
Motive. In the board room of Transport House, headquarters of the Labor Party, the party's National Executive took up the case of Nye Bevan. Having thrown him out of Labor's parliamentary caucuses (TIME, March 28), the party chiefs were logically expected to finish the job by expelling Bevan from the party proper...
...cheering sounded, either for Attlee as he sat down or for Bevan as he rose to reply. There were few men in the room who did not remember 1931, when the Labor Party under Ramsay MacDonald splintered hopelessly and left Labor in the wilderness for a decade. With Celtic scorn, Nye Bevan sought to show that other Socialists than he had insulted Clement Attlee. Manny Shinwell, for instance, said Bevan. And Dick Stokes, the burly M.P. from Ipswich; only last year he had sneered at Attlee's leadership by quoting what he said was a Chinese proverb: "A fish...
...Debate. While the Welshman's stream of words eddied around him, Clem Attlee chewed his pipe, taking it out of his mouth only to mutter: "Most embarrassing, most embarrassing." Attlee left it to his right-wing followers to tear Bevan down, and they did, though messily. "Why did you once take me for a walk down the corridor and say we must get rid of Mr. Attlee?" one woman M.P. demanded of Nye Bevan. "That's a wicked lie," Bevan shot back...
...with it. He has changed his mind before, and he is capable of changing it again; but the pressure on him is growing because the Tories plan to hold a general election this year-and they want Eden to lead them. With the Laborites bitterly divided over Rebel Aneurin Bevan (see below), the chances of a Tory victory appear greater than they have been in years. The most recent Gallup poll in the London News Chronicle gives Labor 44½% of the vote (a decline of almost 3% since last November), compared with 46½% for the government. This...