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...Laborites hemmed and hawed (as well they might, since it was one of their number, Party Secretary Morgan Phillips, who first suggested the idea), but eventually, eight prominent Socialists were elected to make the tour. Leader of the expedition, which will start out in late summer: ex-Prime Minister Clement Attlee...
...also getting him in trouble. Sir Winston Churchill gloated that Nye's revolt had left him "a stranded whale." Last week the whale was expertly harpooned by Bevan's No. 1 rival in the Labor Party, Deputy Leader Herbert Morrison. Apparently with full approval of Clement Attlee, Morrison, in the Laborite monthly Socialist Commentary, accused
This marks the second time that a Lampoon writer has won the prize since it was initiated in 1948. In that year it was awarded to Clement B. Wood '47 for a story entitled "The Very Young Rabbit." The Advocate has won the prize once...
Commentators and columnists, Conservative or Socialist, everywhere condemned the manner, and frequently the matter, in Bevan's abrupt split with Labor Party Leader Clement Attlee (TIME, April 26) over approval of German rearmament and of U.S. leadership in world politics. Admitted the leftist New Statesman & Nation: "By this impulsive gesture, Mr. Bevan has postponed-possibly forever-his own chances of succeeding to the Socialist leadership." "It is the future existence of the party itself which is at stake," said the Times in alarm. If Bevan could swing the party to support "a British neutralism" between the U.S. and Russia...
...House of Commons, Clement Attlee, leader of the Opposition, had just gravely accepted Foreign Secretary Eden's announcement of the Southeast Asia agreement. Suddenly, from the farther end of the Labor front bench, burly Nye Bevan came scrambling over his colleagues' feet to reach the dispatch box. Almost stepping on Attlee's toes physically, as he was in fact politically, Bevan flatly defied his party's leader. The Asia agreement, he cried, was "a surrender to American pressure," and it "will be deeply resented by the majority of people in Great Britain." The agreement was framed...