Word: crossman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beginning in February, Daily Mirror Columnist Richard Crossman, a Labor M.P., urged Prime Minister Macmillan to step into the Western vacuum of leadership. Said Grossman: "Poor Mr. Eisenhower is far too old and ailing even to try negotiations with the Kremlin." Asked the Sunday Express: "Will Ike now turn to Macmillan?" Answer: yes. Reason: "Too long has Ike let himself be known as a leader only in title, who in fact, needs someone else to lead him." Said the Daily Telegraph: "President Eisenhower is, alas, no longer robust, and the West can provide no substitute for an active and authoritative...
...their defiance and could not be helped. This very human reaction, which was widely shared, was perverted into something else by some British Laborites, who deplored the Poznan uprising as a check to what they deemed to be the beneficient evolution of Communism. Laborite Richard H. S. Crossman, who flits in and out of the Bevan camp like an overgrown lightning bug, was upset that anyone outside should support those "desperate men who turned a peaceful demonstration into an armed uprising. We should frankly tell the Poles that armed insurrection is the one thing which could force the Russians...
...dinner in London with a group of 19 British Laborites, some of whom he himself had entertained in Moscow, Georgy Malenkov impressed the brethren with his skill and confidence under a barrage of questions. Laborite R. H. ("Dick") Crossman gave an account of the interview to reporters next day, later dutifully repudiated it in the face of official Russian protests. "He told us," Grossman said, " 'We have effectively prevented a repetition of the dictatorship of Stalin.' Asked in detail how that was done, he did not answer except by saying, 'We have done it.' " Did Malenkov...
Then, from his place on the back bench beside Bevan, Bevanite Richard Crossman briskly shattered Labor's show of unanimity. If some Laborites abstain, said Grossman bluntly, "the reason will not be any change of conviction, but the fact that if one wants to survive in our party to fight another day, one has to accept a majority decision, however unpleasant . . . Let us be clear what we are about...
...vote (965,000), followed by red-haired Barbara Castle (868,000) and cocky Tom Driberg (744,000). For the first time in 23 years, Attlee's faithful lieutenant, Herbert Morrison, the lifelong trade unionist who became Foreign Secretary, was voted off the executive. He was beaten by Dick Crossman, a facile and erratically brilliant Johnny-come-lately to the Bevanite camp. The uproar in the meeting hall was deafening...