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...best-known activities, tried to justify his notably unsuccessful foreign'policy: "The world has changed . . . but Labor understands this new world. We can treat the demands of Asia and Africa with understanding." And reacting to the Tory slogan, "A Vote for Labor Is a Vote for Bevan," Clement Attlee devoted a final broadcast to scotching the whispering campaign that, if elected, he would resign in favor of Bevan. "I am not going to resign," he said, "unless the people of this country reject my leadership...
When the Tories preserve the health program (that invention of the arch-fiend, Bevan) intact, administer the nationalized industries with the zeal they have promised and point directly to rearmament as the cause of the recent slump in British recovery, the critics may calm down for a while. They will explain to their readers that the Conservatives just aren't like Midwest-ern Republicans, in spite of their name, and that the whole mess shows that once you vote in socialists, you're stuck with them forever...
...director of a big London civil engineering and building business. Marples' specialty is housing. The Tories, with the re-introduction of free enterprise, aim to build 300,000 houses a year. In the big debate on housing last fall, Churchill called on Marples, whose success against the formidable Bevan on that occasion gave him a political standing overnight...
...economic problems, and recently growled at a specialist: "You economic experts always make it sound so complicated. After all, it's only barter." (Deep and disgusted Churchillian accent on the last word.) In emphasis, the split among Tories is as sharp as it is between Attlee and Bevan. The young men, for example, want to attack monopolies immediately. There is no anti-trust legislation in Britain, and about one-third of British industry is monopolistic. In denationalizing steel, the seniors are thinking of refloating the industry on the old lines, while the juniors would like to have blocs...
...from Socialists. In fact, there are two all-important differences: 1) the difference between the man who believes in free enterprise, and only imposes controls when he sees no alternative, and the man who believes in state ownership and planning for their own sake; 2) the presence of Nye Bevan. No one doubts the patriotism of Mr. Attlee or that of the Labor Party, and Attlee has never weakened on the defense program, but it is evident that if he returned to power he would have trouble putting it over in the face of Bevan's opposition...