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...vote-getting possibilities of this broad public conviction form an irresistible temptation to British politicians. Aneurin Bevan was the first to recognize them; Churchill, his mortal foe, tapped them in his famed Locarno speech in which he called for a "parley at the summit" (TIME, May 18). Yet it is a milder man than either who most sums up this strange new British brand of neo-neutralism in the cold war. His name is Clement Attlee...
...Four conference, Attlee has made political capital by 1) agreeing with it, 2) blasting the Tory government for letting the U.S. State Department calm Sir Winston down. Last week Attlee was busy with an even cleverer move: to reunite the feuding Labor Party and cut "Nye" Bevan down to size by taking over the Bevanite program and making...
Three thousand delegates representing 6,400,000 members of the Labor Party were gathering in Margate for their 52nd annual conference. "It may be that now and again somebody will say rather rough things," forecast black-browed Aneurin Bevan before descending on Margate with his Bevanly host. "[But] don't let anyone make any mistake . . . When we have had our row and made up our minds, this movement is going to be a solid, united movement...
Jarring Sects. Far from forfeiting his leadership to Bevan, Attlee had proved he was still in command and had taken for his own the Bevanites'-and some of Churchill's-strongest appeal to the country. The two Socialists are still poles apart on domestic issues (e.g., further nationalization, of which the Bevanites make a fetish), and Bevan is still out to win over the party from the Attlee regime, any way he can. But Attlee has pushed the thunderous Welshman right off his own front porch...
...commented the influential Economist. "It goes against nationalization"). "Betrayal!" cried voices from the left wing. But the majority did not think so. Armed with proxies for the full T.U.C. membership, the delegates adopted the report, 4,978,000 against 2,640,000. It was a thundering defeat for Nye Bevan's web-spinners...