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...seen convinced him, "sadly but definitely," that German rearmament was necessary. Said Donnelly: "If every plan for controlled German rearmament is rejected, we shall find ourselves with no controls-but with the arms." Bevanites began to boo. Shouting above the swelling uproar, Donnelly suddenly pointed an accusing finger at Bevan and cried: "Some people will bear a heavy responsibility before history for their folly." Bevan sat flushed and angry...
...Shame, shame!" bellowed outraged Bevanites. "Withdraw! Let Nye reply!" Burly Arthur Deakin, chief of the Transport and General Workers Union and Bevan's frequent antagonist, lumbered to his feet to demand that Donnelly be allowed to continue. Bevan's pent-up anger and frustration burst. "Shut up," he hissed savagely at Deakin. "Shut up yourself!" yelled Deakin. "You big bully!" cried Bevan. "You're afraid of him," snapped Deakin. "Bully yourself!"-accompanying this last thrust by what one newspaper called "a gesture not usually used in polite society...
...votes was even closer than it looked: only three days before, the executives of the woodworkers union had met, decided to reverse their anti-rearmament stand at the Trades Union Congress, and to switch their 129,000 votes to Attlee's side. Without that switch, the Bevan forces would have won by 10,000 votes and the official policy of the party turned to neutralism...
Gift from the Gods. It was not by any means Scarborough's only blow at the clamorous ambitions of Nye Bevan. He was soundly licked for party treasurer by his arch rival Hugh Gaitskell and, since he had deliberately refused to stand for sure re-election to the party executive, this left him without an official position in the party leadership for the first time in ten years...
...going outside to meet it where it does lie." It was a flat declaration of war on the party's leadership. By implication, Nye also declared war on the trade-union leaders, who, he hinted, did not represent their members' real wishes. Those leaders reacted promptly. "Mr. Bevan is a remarkable man, but his judgment is, so bad as to bring his genius to the gutter," snapped one unionist. "Apparently in his disappointment, Mr. Bevan has lost his head," said Arthur Deakin...