Word: labours
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recommending that the areas of closest contact, such as the Middle East and Central Europe, be made into neutral areas or "geographic cushions," Bevan echoed the advice of Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell, who made similar recommendations in his Godkin Lectures here last spring...
Bevan, in an informal press conference, stressed the need to reduce the degree to which the United States and Soviet Russia have divided the world into separate camps. Bevan, however, declined the role of "bridge" between the two camps, saying that the Labour Party in England cannot and will not ditch British commitment to NATO...
...highbrow monthly Encounter. Describing the royal family as "a ridiculous anachronism" and "the gold filling in a mouthful of decay," Osborne denounced "Queen worship" as "the national swill" and no fit occupation for Socialists. "I don't believe," he wrote, "that there can be one intellectual in the Labour Party who doesn't find it hilarious or contemptible. Naturally they would never dream of losing all those votes by saying...
...turning points in these relations came in January, 1920, when British pressure caused the Supreme Council to end the Russian blockade and initiate trade through the Russian co-operative societies. The British co-operatives, with their close ties to the Labour movement, played a not-inconsiderable part in the formation of this policy, yet Mr. Graubard does not even mention these events. And when Lloyd George appointed James O'Grady, a Labour M.P. and trade union official, to carry on prolonged negotiations with Litvinov for an exchange of prisoners, what effect did O'Grady's participation have on Labour thinking...
...pity that Mr. Graubard did not find time to consult the diplomatic record; another dimension would have been added to his admirable study, and its usefulness in illuminating a too-little-known part of Labour's history would have been considerably increased...