Word: nye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this week's cover story on Prime Minister Anthony Eden and the British general election campaign, half a dozen TIME correspondents took to the hustings in pursuit of Tory, Labor and Liberal candidates of all ranks. In Scotland to cover Nye Bevan's tour, the London bureau's Robert Lubar wondered how the Laborite rebel would like being shadowed by a U.S. newsman. As it turned out, Bevan liked it fine. He began by taking Lubar to task for what he said was TIME'S rough treatment of him. "But you thrive on it," Lubar remarked...
...gamble was, of course, carefully calculated and nicely timed. As the campaign got going, the London bookies' odds (4 to 1) sharply favored the Conservatives. The Conservatives were ostensibly united and plainly well organized; the Laborites were divided between Attlee moderates and Nye Bevan rebels. The Tories could point to the highest level of prosperity in Britain's history, achieved while shucking off the controls which war and Socialist experimenting had imposed. The News Chronicle's Gallup poll last week showed a 2½% edge for the Tories, a gain of 2% from late April. But above...
Papering Over. Labor's first disadvantage is its divided house. Nye Bevan is playing the good boy now. The party rift has been papered over with an innocuous manifesto composed at the leadership's bidding by two of the noisiest Bevanites : Richard Grossman and Tom Driberg...
...strategic voting area where he can now claim kinship. Rebel Rouser Aneurin Bevan careened through the industrial towns and docksides to roll his rich Welsh voice behind Bevanite candidates and Bevanite notions. In a manner reminiscent of days gone by, when he likened the Tories to "vermin," Nye got off to an impish start by likening the Tories to the biblical Gadarene swine. ("I would rather move in a herd," replied Tory Rab Butler last week, "than be a solitary, lonely and disgruntled...
...forgotten. "There's nothing like the threat of annihilation," said one Laborite, "to bring chaps together." In a quiet meeting of the parliamentary Labor party, ousted Bevan was taken back into the fold without a whisper of opposition, and in the party manifesto outlining Labor's platform, Nye Sevan's stand against the nuclear bomb took first place, followed by the usual biting condemnation of everything Tory...