Word: nye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mutterings of some Tory rebels who fear that he is about to surrender Suez, the speech went relatively unchallenged. Clement Attlee could find nothing more severe to say than that Churchill had returned from Bermuda "a Father Christmas without presents." All was quiet, except for the area around Nye Bevan. Churchill's favorite target on the left. During his speech, Churchill remarked that "it would be a great pity if . . . relations between Britain and the United States . . . were to be increasingly expressed in what I might call Bevanite-McCarthy terms...
Linking Bevan with McCarthy was the surest way to infuriate him, and Churchill succeeded. Besides, Nye has been embarrassed of late by a Tory paper's discovery that an Egyptian paper had printed approvingly one of his articles on evacuating British troops from Suez. Bevan got to his feet full of facts and figures about anti-government articles Churchill had written for foreign papers during the '30s. He went on to quote a blustery article Sir Winston had written 40 years ago in defense of his father, Lord Randolph Churchill. "This right honorable gentleman," interrupted Sir Winston...
...causes," said Nye, "is to be found in British newspapers. They are no longer newspapers; they are power papers used not for the purpose of communicating news to people, but for indoctrinating ideas and concealing from people things they ought to know." Because of this, said the apostle of the left-wing Socialism known as Bevanism, Britons "are no longer capable of a right assessment of the international scene . . . For the first three or four years after the war, the British people were comparatively sane. Now they are practically insane...
...close on three hours. Attlee, Nye Bevan, Herbert Morrison and ten others of Labor's top command grilled the pair, demanding clear-cut answers to Lyttelton's charges. Time & again, they put the direct question, "Are you Communists?", got only evasive replies. To a man. the Labor leaders were revolted by Burnham's doubletalk. "It's a tragedy." said one, "that such an opportunity should have been thrown away by such terrible men . . ." "Burnham is 20 times more astute than Jagan," said another. "His answers were so slick that sometimes you were almost caught by them...
Firebrand No. 1, Nye Bevan himself, was down with flu and reportedly deeply depressed. Influential Bevanite M.P.s, notably Dick Grossman and Desmond Donnelly, are quietly counseling Nye to let the rebel rump die and return to party regularity. The new Bevanite line: "We have accomplished much. Our job must now be to consolidate the party...