Word: nye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Motive. In the board room of Transport House, headquarters of the Labor Party, the party's National Executive took up the case of Nye Bevan. Having thrown him out of Labor's parliamentary caucuses (TIME, March 28), the party chiefs were logically expected to finish the job by expelling Bevan from the party proper...
...Herbert Morrison and Heir Apparent II Hugh Gaitskell, pressed for outright expulsion. But Clem Attlee, the man who had backed the disciplining of Bevan in the first place, pulled the pipe from his mouth and made a surprise proposal: postpone expulsion and set up a committee to inquire whether Nye Bevan might not be brought into line with party discipline. The right-wingers fought, but lost. With Attlee voting for Bevan, the National Executive decided, 14 to 13, to stay Nye Bevan's expulsion. "What can you do with a man who doodles while Transport House burns?" one Laborite...
...windup revealed his own misgivings over his handling of the Bevan revolt. "I have tried and failed to get unity ... I have been abused for not taking action, for weakness and dithering." Now he was taking action. He demanded the highest penalty: "Withdrawal of the whip," i.e., releasing Nye from party discipline...
...sounded, either for Attlee as he sat down or for Bevan as he rose to reply. There were few men in the room who did not remember 1931, when the Labor Party under Ramsay MacDonald splintered hopelessly and left Labor in the wilderness for a decade. With Celtic scorn, Nye Bevan sought to show that other Socialists than he had insulted Clement Attlee. Manny Shinwell, for instance, said Bevan. And Dick Stokes, the burly M.P. from Ipswich; only last year he had sneered at Attlee's leadership by quoting what he said was a Chinese proverb: "A fish starts...
...mutter: "Most embarrassing, most embarrassing." Attlee left it to his right-wing followers to tear Bevan down, and they did, though messily. "Why did you once take me for a walk down the corridor and say we must get rid of Mr. Attlee?" one woman M.P. demanded of Nye Bevan. "That's a wicked lie," Bevan shot back...