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Mendes-France stated that, with the exception of the communists, there is no leftist group in France advocating the neutralism that has received wide support among elements of the British Labour Party. In his own party, the Unified Socialists, he added, there exists no tendency towards a policy of withdrawal from the western alliance...
Recent Godkin Lecturers have included Louis Munoz Marin, Governor of Puerto Rico; Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the British Labour Party; and James Bryant Conant '14, President Emeritus of the University and former Ambassador to Germany, Previously, the series has been presented in the spring. The Harvard Press publishes the lectures annually...
Neither his difficulties not this controversy can possibly be hidden. The whole business of unilateralism will be hashed over again and again once Parliament begins its session on November 1. Some 200 M.P.'s (about four-fifths of the Labour membership), including influential front-benchers like Philip Noel-Baker, George Brown, and Denis Healy, will stand by the official policy. There is little choice, after all; if they display so blatant a change of attitude, their campaign promises (many of which stressed responsibility to NATO) will seem ludicrous. As Gaitskell dramatically asked the conference: "Do you think we can become...
...remaining Labour M.P.'s will probably follow the example of K. Zilliacus, one of their number who declared the other day that "Mr. Gaitskell's arrogance and fanaticism and hydrogen-bomb strategy mean that he is not fit to lead the party and will have to go." This group may propose to replace Gaitskell with Harold Wilson, a non-leftist who is nonetheless unlikely to quarrel with the conference...
This November, in other words, there will be two Labour parties in Westminster. Gaitskell has two choices: to fight and fight and fight again for constitutional revision, or to see his party lose in so many General Elections that disgust will force him to join the Liberal Party which he now so much dislikes...