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...campaign was hotting up. Party headquarters supplied "scientific questions" for hecklers to ask at opposition meetings. Sample Tory heckle: "Mr. Bevan, do you and Attlee agree on policy?" Sample Labor heckle: "Isn't it true that prices in Britain have risen less than in any other major nation...
Labor's façade of unity was a sham, as everyone in Britain knew. As the Scarborough conference broke up, Laborite Rebel Nye Bevan-who hopes to be Britain's next Prime Minister but one-bested all comers in the constituency polls for a new National Executive Committee of the Labor Party. Three of his disciples, including fiery Mrs. Barbara Castle, were elected to serve alongside him on the 25-man committee. Defense Minister Manny Shinwell was beaten. Attlee's moderates, with the powerful bloc votes of the trade unions, still held control of the party...
...Aneurin Bevan's split with the Labor leadership over last years' budget would not make much of a difference, according to Beer. U. S. observers were upset by the fact that four Bevan men were recently elected to the Party's seven-man National Executive Committee at the Scarborough Conference, but Beer discounts this. "These seven seats only represent 770,000 people out of the 5,500,000 Labor Party members." He believes that the power shifts within the Executive Committee does not represent a rank-and-file shift away from the Attlee leadership. Despite the fact that Bevan...
Peace & Prosperity. Laborites, before they could square away at the Tories, had first to quit fighting each other. This they proceeded to do last week at the seaside city of Scarborough. Before the election was announced, Clement Attlee and the rebel Laborite Nye Bevan had been scheduled to square off against one another in Scarborough. Instead of starring for the rebels, Nye-who hopes to win the election after next, and doesn't want the blame if the Socialists lose this time-stepped up to praise Attlee, not to bury him. But it was still Bevan the rebel...
...touching, if not convincing, reunion. The Labor Manifesto, which appeared next day and to which Bevan assented over a cup of tea, gave no sign that the Labor ranks had really been closed. It skirted all the touchy points...