Word: nye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, Parliament got its first look at the portrait it had commissioned as an 80th birthday gift for Sir Winston Churchill. The reaction was immediate, vehement, and split right down the middle of the aisle. "It's disgusting, ill-mannered," said Lord Hailsham. "A beautiful work, wonderful!" countered Nye Bevan. Privately the Prime Minister-whose distaste for modern art is well known-reportedly muttered: "It makes me look half-witted which I ain't." At the birthday ceremony he commented wryly: "The portrait is a remarkable example of modern art." And when he added, "It certainly combines force...
Last week the showdown came, but not the way Nye had foreseen. What had looked like promising issues ("No Guns for the Huns") in the spring, turned out to be lost causes in November. In a quiet, closed-door session, the Labor M.P.s agreed overwhelmingly to back the Manila Pact, and afterward Nye did not even bother to appear in the House of Commons when it won easy approval. A few days later the second blow fell: in another private session the Labor M.P.s voted 124 to 72 to support German rearmament. When the Bevanites began their insurrection, they...
...specific violation of a party injunction that forbids Laborite leaders to attack one another in public. The Tribune's misbehavior could, if the Labor Executive felt like pressing the issue, lead to the expulsion from the party of the Tribune's three Labor M.P. editors (among them, Nye's wife Jennie...
...month that Senator Smith planned a European tour after her reelection, Murrow asked if he might send along a CBS camera crew. She agreed, and has already dispatched chatty filmed interviews for Murrow's See It Now with such personalities as Anthony Eden. Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge and Nye Bevan ("Mr. Bevan . . . what are your principal impressions about Communist China?"). In Germany the CBS cameraman was taken into one-hour custody by suspicious Red police during a visit to East Berlin ("Ed, this really makes me think...
...Laborites who toured Red China last month got a delayed kick in the pants from their recent hosts. The latest edition of the Reds' Modern Encyclopedia hit the stands. Its strongest venom was saved for recent Peking Guest Aneurin Bevan, farthest left of Britain's top socialists. Nye did not make the grade as a "Foreign Personage" (two who did: party-lining Comedian Charlie Chaplin and Canterbury's Red Dean Hewlett Johnson), but instead was ignominiously lumped with such "Foreign Reactionaries" as his old enemy in the House of Commons, Sir Winston Churchill. The Encyclopedia then hauled...