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Then, from his place on the back bench beside Bevan, Bevanite Richard Crossman briskly shattered Labor's show of unanimity. If some Laborites abstain, said Grossman bluntly, "the reason will not be any change of conviction, but the fact that if one wants to survive in our party to fight another day, one has to accept a majority decision, however unpleasant . . . Let us be clear what we are about...
...Next day Bevan addressed the House. As always, the House listened with fascination to the Welsh lilt and the demagogic half-truth. He was not against German rearmament, Bevan insisted, but "the pace and altitude of that armament...
Early this year, Aneurin Bevan, the Labor Party's aging Young Turk, decided that the time had come to stake his ambitions on what seemed to be two surefire issues. He challenged the Labor Party's leadership by opposing 1) West German rearmament, 2 ) a Southeast Asia pact. To dramatize his rebellion, he resigned from Labor's "Shadow Cabinet," gave up his front seat on the Opposition benches and retreated bulkily to the "Mountain," the backest back bench in the House of Commons, to await the showdown...
...that Senator Smith planned a European tour after her reelection, Murrow asked if he might send along a CBS camera crew. She agreed, and has already dispatched chatty filmed interviews for Murrow's See It Now with such personalities as Anthony Eden. Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge and Nye Bevan ("Mr. Bevan . . . what are your principal impressions about Communist China?"). In Germany the CBS cameraman was taken into one-hour custody by suspicious Red police during a visit to East Berlin ("Ed, this really makes me think...
WOODROW WYATT, anti-Bevan Laborite M.P., in the New York Times Magazine...