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...unchanging principles apply to the ever-changing facts of life, not to deny that the facts have changed. British conservatism today rarely speaks in terms of principle; consequently, the British right is scarcely heard in public debate, leaving the field to the anti-American leftists, from Attlee to Bevan to Driberg...
...close on three hours. Attlee, Nye Bevan, Herbert Morrison and ten others of Labor's top command grilled the pair, demanding clear-cut answers to Lyttelton's charges. Time & again, they put the direct question, "Are you Communists?", got only evasive replies. To a man. the Labor leaders were revolted by Burnham's doubletalk. "It's a tragedy." said one, "that such an opportunity should have been thrown away by such terrible men . . ." "Burnham is 20 times more astute than Jagan," said another. "His answers were so slick that sometimes you were almost caught by them...
Firebrand No. 1, Nye Bevan himself, was down with flu and reportedly deeply depressed. Influential Bevanite M.P.s, notably Dick Grossman and Desmond Donnelly, are quietly counseling Nye to let the rebel rump die and return to party regularity. The new Bevanite line: "We have accomplished much. Our job must now be to consolidate the party...
...that he may not be up to the day-to-day demands of his job. There were reports that he would shortly turn over affairs to ailing Anthony Eden, who at Margate spoke animatedly but looked exhausted. Talk of a new general election was in the air. Noisy Nye Bevan had already demanded that Sir Winston should "clear out . . . if he is unable to do his duty"; and even the London Times had sternly warned that "the Prime Minister must satisfy himself and the nation that he is physically equal to the task ahead." At Margate, the Old Man killed...
...same crude device employed to sabotage a Nazi munitions train in the Trzcinski and Bevan play and movie Stalag...