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...prosecutor later subpoenaed the clergyman, John Mellish of the Margate Church of the Nazarene, and asked him to reveal what Sands might have told...
...election exemplified the battle between moderates and leftists for Labor's ideological soul. Moderate Laborite Robert Mellish had held the seat for 36 years, but left-wingers seized control of the Bermondsey party machinery, and the disillusioned Mellish forced a new election by retiring. The local leadership then selected the boyish Tatchell, an Australian immigrant who quickly adopted a position supporting better housing and education, along with radical socialism and homosexual rights. He had first attracted attention when he called for "new, more militant forms of extraparliamentary opposition which challenge the government's right to rule...
Horrified by the choice, Foot first declared that he would never support Tatchell. But adamant local leaders stood by their choice and forced Foot to change his mind. Mellish, meantime, threw his support behind moderate Laborite John O'Grady, 62, who mounted an independent challenge under the label "Real Labor." It was a dirty campaign. Tatchell received 20 death threats, and in an allusion to his rumored sexual preferences, 10,000 pamphlets flooded Bermondsey picturing Tatchell with the monarch above the caption WHICH QUEEN WILL YOU VOTE FOR? The vituperative campaign helped to divide the Labor vote and destroyed...
...politics." Last week he indicated that seven days would not be at all long enough. "This government is not a transient and passing phenomenon," he told the House of Commons in his first visit back as Prime Minister. "We are planning for a year or more ahead. " Bob Mellish, Labor's chief whip, was bolder, declaring: "I shall behave as if we were a government with an enormous majority...
Through driving rain, Rotherhithe dockers and housewives plodded to the polls, elected Laborite Robert Joseph Mellish by a 4,444 majority. Twitted by jubilant Laborite Herbert Morrison, Tories replied: "Wait until tomorrow." With the U.S. Republican slogan "Had enough?" Tory leaders Lord Woolton and Anthony Eden had energetically stumped the former Tory stronghold of North Paddington, which had only gone Labor in the last general election. But middle-class North Paddington elected Laborite William James Field by a 3,000 majority...