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...reunification of Germany." In Attlee's view, Berlin satisfied those further efforts. At a meeting of the parliamentary Labor Party last week, he proposed a resolution declaring Labor's support−at last−of German inclusion in Western defense. Up jumped young (37) Harold Wilson, Nye Bevan's right-hand man. The West had been no more conciliatory than Molotov at Berlin, he argued. He proposed an amendment postponing the questions of German rearmament at least until after the Geneva meeting in April...
...confined to Bevanites. It included many victims of two costly world wars, who deeply distrusted putting guns into the hands of Germans; many who worried that the rearmed Germans might attempt to reunite with East Germany by force and set off another war; some who argued (like Bevan) that the West had gone to Berlin unwilling to bargain away the twelve West German divisions at any price...
...Bloody Silly." But afterwards, in the smoking room, Bevan was surrounded by excited followers urging him to resign from Labor's shadow cabinet. Bevan, who believes German rearmament is inevitable anyway, and has been trying to acquire a reputation as a solid elder statesman, was scornful. "This isn't a resignation issue, I tell you," he snorted. "Why the hell should I resign, perhaps only for a matter of weeks? It would be bloody silly...
...school element had little stomach for 42-year-old Milovan Djilas' confident heresies, and it watched with uneasiness his growing support among younger Communists. The old Communists did not like his going to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II or his friendship with such British Socialists as Nye Bevan, Morgan Phillips and Clement Attiee. When Djilas' wordy barbs in Borba got to the old-school Communists, they demanded a showdown, and Tito gave the order...
...question that interested Egyptians most, the evacuation of 80,000 British troops from Suez, Nye treaded so skillfully that London newspapers mistakenly thought he had spoken like an English nationalist. So far as he is concerned, "Egypt has a right to resist conditions she does not like," and Bevan the Briton supports her conditions...