Word: nye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...America to withdraw into isolation would condemn all Europe to Russian Communist subjugation and our famous and beloved island to death and ruin. And yet, six months ago, a politician who has held office in a British Cabinet [i.e., Nye Bevan], and who one day aspires to become leader of the Labor Party, did not hesitate to tell the Americans to "go it alone." One cannot imagine any more fatal disaster than that this evil counselor should be taken at his word...
...Shame, shame!" bellowed outraged Bevanites. "Withdraw! Let Nye reply!" Burly Arthur Deakin, chief of the Transport and General Workers Union and Bevan's frequent antagonist, lumbered to his feet to demand that Donnelly be allowed to continue. Bevan's pent-up anger and frustration burst. "Shut up," he hissed savagely at Deakin. "Shut up yourself!" yelled Deakin. "You big bully!" cried Bevan. "You're afraid of him," snapped Deakin. "Bully yourself!"-accompanying this last thrust by what one newspaper called "a gesture not usually used in polite society...
Gift from the Gods. It was not by any means Scarborough's only blow at the clamorous ambitions of Nye Bevan. He was soundly licked for party treasurer by his arch rival Hugh Gaitskell and, since he had deliberately refused to stand for sure re-election to the party executive, this left him without an official position in the party leadership for the first time in ten years...
...Nye told his followers what he intended to do with his new freedom. "I know now that the right kind of political leader for the Labor Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any way permit himself to be swayed by indignation," said he bitterly. "Power inside the movement no longer lies inside the executive. I am going outside to meet it where it does lie." It was a flat declaration of war on the party's leadership. By implication, Nye also declared war on the trade-union leaders, who, he hinted, did not represent their...
...heard the last of Nye. He was free now, and eager to thump his tub at mill gates, dockyards, and pit heads, trying to woo the workers from their leaders. "Bevan may be dead" said one Laborite,"but he won't lie down...