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...choose this issue to make a test of Executive strength. Attlee returned from Peking to Scarborough to find a Conference agenda packed with resolutions against rearmament, the constituency parties solidly backing these resolutions, and even some of the Trade Unions, the traditional source of Attlee's strength, siding with Bevan on the issue. On the eve of the rearmament vote, the London Times, noting this Trade Union split, could report "that the result will still depend on the votes of the (Bevanite) Constituency party delegations." Bevan was making a further bid for party leadership by running against Gaitskell, the Executive...
Attlee was more concerned with the annual Labor Party Congress opening this week at Scarborough. There, Attlee and his moderates would be engaged in a fight with the left-wing rebels of Aneurin Bevan over German rearmament...
...Bevan, who had got home from Red China first, demanded that the National Executive Committee reverse party policy and come out against arms or NATO membership for Germany. Attlee's men replied with one of those ingenious compromises that make peaceful coexistence possible between the two wings of the Labor Party: a policy favoring arms and sovereignty for the Germans but also offering to "consider" some more Big Three talks with the Russians. Since the Attleeites had the votes, Bevan was rebuffed...
While Attlee coasted south, Bevan and the others made a quick trip to Japan. Bevan echoed Attlee: "It is wrong to consider that the Communists will invade other countries," said Bevan. "They propose peaceful coexistence of the East and West camps." China, he predicted, "will not be content to play second fiddle to the Soviet Union." Communist Chinese leaders seemed to have "great elasticity" compared to the "set pattern" of Russian thinking, Nye went on. "Soviet leaders when conferring with Malenkov seemed petrified with fear in his presence, rather than having respect...
...went through overwhelmingly last time, barely squeaked through last week. In two weeks-the Labor Party itself will be holding its annual conference. If conservative unions like the T.U.C. have so little enthusiasm for tasks such as German rearmament, what could be expected from the Socialist constituencies, where Nye Bevan has his greatest strength? Clem Attlee and Labor's moderate leadership are in for trouble...