Word: morganization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Self-constituted group manager and perhaps the most optimistic was Secretary Morgan Phillips, who cherishes the belief that Communists can be changed. He likes to recall another Labor Party trip he arranged to Yugoslavia, when he spent long hours over rakija with Tito, persuading him to make a break with Moscow. "I have great hopes of this visit to China," he confided. "It could be as historic as was our Yugoslav journey...
...conference did not get to Len's resolution last year. But it caught the eye of General Secretary Morgan Phillips, a stocky ex-miner from Wales, one of Labor's shrewdest political brains and a politico who can sniff a budding political bloom a year off. Had not the Conservatives profited by Churchill's appeal for one more "parley at the summit"? Phillips dispatched a letter to Peking. Months later, at Geneva, China's Chou En-lai gave a benevolent go-ahead...
...never-to-be-forgotten" sight of the Kremlin by moonlight, described Molotov as "carefree of spirit ... He left an impression upon me of being perfectly sincere," while Malenkov "cannot resist that friendly grin when someone has made a crack at the Russians or one of their particular policies." Wrote Morgan Phillips: "I am convinced-unless I know nothing of international affairs and human be havior-that the personal friendliness shown to us in the Soviet Union has been altogether genuine . . ..There are grounds for a renewal of optimism...
Seven British journalists (among them correspondents of the London Times and the Daily Worker) had been invited also, but long before they reached China, Morgan Phillips firmly put the press in its place. He forbade any Laborite to talk to the journalists. "We are not going to have you people breathing down our necks and have to be on our guard about what we say for 24 hours a day," said Phillips. Everywhere the group went, the Chinese were forced to double all arrangements-a plane for the delegation and a plane for the press. Reporters were shut...
...Canton, where the authorities hastily had the main streets painted and beggars and refugees hustled out of sight, Morgan Phillips issued a farewell statement for the delegation: "We sympathize with the efforts the Chinese people are making . . . This sympathy and understanding should be shown by the rest of the world in immediate and practical form." With that, they emerged into the outer world at Hong Kong...