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...snipers were already at work. The Labor Party's sharpshooters opened their advertising effort with a photo of six figurines, representing Tory leaders, over a headline: YESTERDAY'S MEN THEY FAILED BEFORE. The Conservatives matched it with a huge photo of an overflowing wastebasket headlined: LABOUR SAY THEY WILL FIGHT ON THEIR RECORD. GOOD. HERE IT IS. Plainly, Britain is in for several weeks of cutting exchanges before the June 18 elections...
This celebrated legatee of the Fabian Left tradition calls himself "a socialist but not a determinist" and confesses his "primary interest in power problems" He shed with relief the academic life to become a party professional after the War. "The Labour Party has been my life since 1957 (when Gaitskell died) I adore it. Before '57, I was in exile on the left wing of the party during the ascendancy of A?? and Gaitskell. For 19 years. I quarreled with the leadership...
...member of the Cabinet since 1964, Crossman has grown old comfortably with the party nexus of Labour infighting. In the party, not in Parliament or on the hustings, he established his political prominence-"climbing up the scale of preferment" since 1957. He runs in a wonderfully safe district, which "would elect the backend of a jackass" if it wore the Labour label. "It's a very humbling thought," added Crossman. "They're not voting for me, they're voting for the machine. That is what left wing politics is all about...
...Every Labour government enters Parliament committed to a mandate, he said. "Nothing we do there alters the program. Good, bad, or indifferent, the whole mandate is carried out line by line...
...going to have conflict and we are going to unite until the workers have their rights," said Eammon McCann, radical Labour Party leader from Derry. Northern Ireland, last night to an audience of more than 100 at Harvard Hall...