Word: morrison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Labor M.P.s listened in tense silence, the teller read out: "There voted for Mr. Hugh Gaitskell, 157; Mr. Aneurin Bevan, 70." In third place, with a humiliating 40 votes, was old Herbert Morrison, who only two years ago was recognized as Attlee's likely successor...
Clem Attlee was gone, and in the chair as deputy leader glumly sat the usually perky, 67-year-old Herbert Morrison. All his life he had worked to occupy that chair in his own right, as leader of the Labor Party. Last week his mouth was set as he directed the reading of the ballots...
There was a momentary burst of applause for Gaitskell the winner, which quickly fell into a painful silence at the sight of Morrison's stricken look. The man who had helped shape British Socialism for 35 years had been rejected by his colleagues with a derisory handful of votes in favor of a man who was a newly elected M.P. when Morrison was Deputy Prime Minister. "It was the most terrible experience of my political life," said one Labor M.P. later. "It was like watching a man being beaten to death and knowing that we were nearly every...
Silently, Morrison rose from the chair and gestured to Gaitskell. Embarrassed and flushed himself, Hugh Gaitskell moved along the platform to take the chair. Morrison took Gaitskell's empty seat and stared straight ahead...
Gaitskell would have none of that. "I have the highest regard for Mr. Morrison," he said, "but I think the party should have the opportunity of choosing." As 275 Labor M.P.s balloted this week, the odds were on Gaitskell...