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Bulky Nye Bevan obviously did not think it was time for a showdown. Nye had been expelled by the party once before (in 1939, for peddling Popular Frontism); what's more, he did not have the votes to challenge Attlee. "There is nothing sinister in the Bevan group," he said, hand on heart. "Let us put off [a vote] until the next session of [Parliament]." But the majority turned him down. By 188 votes to 51 (with 53 Laborites absent or abstaining), the Parliamentary Labor Party endorsed Attlee's ultimatum. The Bevanites would probably disband as a group...
...meeting of parliamentary front benchers Attlee himself cast aside the cloak of neutrality he has tried up to now to wear as party leader. In tart, hot temper, he outlined an ultimatum to the Bevanites-disband the party-within-a-party and stop calling names in public. Nye Bevan, his eyes round with affected innocence, faced the challenge with the wounded mien of a child accused of palming the queen in a game of Old Maid. With hands spread wide, he offered to throw his group meetings open to all and let "those who suspect us come and hear...
...Adlai Stevenson's views on government and medicine were the same as Aneurin Bevan's, there might be some cause for the doctors' trepidation. But Stevenson has said, "I am against the socialization of the practice of medicine as much as I would be against the socialization of my own profession, the law." When the Governor suggested that the Democratic convention make no mention of compulsory health insurance in its platform, his party obliged. Clearly, then, the AMA doctors fear no strangulation of free enterprise in the medical field no matter who is elected...
...weeks ago Aneurin Bevan did his best to persuade a rabidly divided Labor Party conference at Morecambe that the U.S. was deliberately goading Britain into war and bankruptcy (TIME, Oct. 13). Last week, at the Yorkshire beach resort Scarborough, Winston Churchill assured a conference of 5,000 Conservatives that "the foundation of [British] foreign policy is a true and honorable comradeship with the United States...
...moment, the Bevanite landslide was halted, but ambitious Aneurin Bevan's irresponsible larking might still cost the party its good reputation. "In any alliance that is becoming uneasy, from the military to the matrimonial," said the Economist, "it is always the partner who values unity most highly who has to make the most concession." Aneurin Bevan's new power, the Economist continued, might well mean a Labor foreign policy "shot with ideological distrust of Britain's allies and with starry-eyed illusion about its enemies...