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...result of skillful maneuvering, aided by earnest oratory from Attlee, Bevin, Bevan, Morrison and Cripps, the British Labor Party closed its conferences at Blackpool last week on a note of determined unity against the Tory opposition, which was dangerously on the upswing...
...Lancashire this week the sea was a stormy, threatening grey. Grey and stormy, too, was the future that faced 1,500 Labor Party delegates, gathered in Blackpool for the party's 48th annual conference. The slogan for the 1950 elections was: "Labor believes in Britain." The question was: Does Britain still believe in Labor...
...From Blackpool, TIME Correspondent...
Delegates at Blackpool did not try to play down the danger. Militant Aneurin Bevan was in a somber mood when he addressed a preconference rally. Said Bevan: "Some of our people . . . appear to have achieved material prosperity in excess of their moral stature. Some of them have got what they have got too easily and they are in danger of throwing away by a few months of dissipating anarchy what we have spent our lifetime in building...
Then he took the sleeper for Blackpool, his first stop in a tour of Lancashire and England's industrial Midlands. He made for Freckleton, where 61 people were killed in 1944 when a U.S. bomber crashed on the village. He chatted with the mothers of the dead children, helped shove toddlers down the playground slides, visited the communal graveyard...