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Economic difficulties are compounded by the government's troubles abroad, e.g., the loss of oil and prestige in Iran. Dissension rocked the Labor Party. The rebel Welshman Aneurin Bevan and other left-wing Laborites cried out against putting rearmament before social welfare...
...week the pressures seemed to converge on Clem Attlee. Over the transatlantic phone, Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell (attending the Washington and Ottawa conferences of the Big Three and NATO Council) told the Prime Minister that the dollar situation looked blacker than ever. Then came news that Nye Bevan and his party rebels were publishing a pamphlet, "Going Our Way," inciting trade unions to break with Attlee's policies. Finally Attlee announced: "I consider that the time has now come to ask the electors for a renewal of confidence in the government ... I have therefore asked His Majesty...
...week's end, before the Scottish Labor Party conference at North Berwick, Attlee pleaded for party unity (later in the week, Bevan promised to "close ranks," support the government during the campaign). Attlee decried his Conservative opponent Winston Churchill as "a very old-fashioned politician...
...joined Conservatives in asking Prime Minister Clement Attlee for a general election this fall. Tories feel they have a fresh talking point in British failure in Iran, are sure they can tip the balance of power to their side. Labor's own left wing, led by rambunctious Nye Bevan, would like a showdown before the government makes more commitments for defense at the expense of the welfare state...
Commented the Daily Express, another Beaverbrook paper: the Bevan articles give "an extraordinary insight into the character and aims of this man who hopes one day to become Prime Minister of Britain . . . In describing Tito, Mr. Bevan is describing the sort of man that he himself would like to be . . . the political powers which he himself would like to have in this country...