Word: morrison
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Lost Leader. In the moment of his triumph, Gaitskell turned to Herbert Morrison and spoke in tones of warm and genuine regret. Morrison had announced he would resign as deputy leader if he lost. Earnestly, Gaitskell begged him to change his mind: the party needed him. Morrison shook his head...
...When Morrison got to his feet a few minutes later, his tone was not that of the cocky cockney veteran of 30 years in the House. How could he carry on as deputy leader, he demanded bitterly, after the party had rejected him; how could he "face the jeers of the Tories?" Nearly overcome, he turned to Gaitskell and asked: "May I be permitted to leave this meeting?" Head bowed, he stepped down from the platform and made his way to the door. Moved by a single impulse, every Laborite rose to his feet and stood in silence...
...chief rival. "Let bygones be bygone," said Gaitskell. Aneurin Bevan smiled and pledged his support. But there was no jubilation; no one headed for the bar to celebrate. They had rejected Bevan because he was too unreliable and would "frighten the country off us." Sadly they had rejected Morrison because he had become too old during the long years as Crown Prince. Gaitskell had been chosen in cold rationalism, not hot enthusiasm...
...Answers. Once the Socialists were a fierce and demanding minority, and cried injustice from housetop and street corner. The comfortable feared them. Gaitskell represents a new generation. He is no militant. He never talked himself hoarse on windy street corners under a policeman's hostile eye (as did Morrison), or chewed tobacco against the pit dust (as did Bevan). But 30 years after, Labor was in the position of having won its crusade. Once the citadel is stormed, the need is not for happy warriors but a good housekeeper; the welfare state needs to be run, not won. Successful...
First reason for the vigorous intellectual leadership of the weekly Christian Century (circ. 38,500) is tough-minded, liberal Editor Charles Clayton Morrison, 81, who bought it in 1908 (when it had 600 readers) and made it into the trumpet voice of nondenominational Protestantism. Eight years ago Editor Morrison retired, leaving the magazine in the hands of his longtime managing editor, Paul Hutchinson. Editor Hutchinson is the second reason for the Century's success...