Word: nye
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Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill called the speech "massive and magnificent" (though Labor's Nye Bevan, sharpest British critic of the U.S., dissented on the ground that Eisenhower was conceding "nothing at all"). In France, the non-Communist press applauded ("historic discourse . . . appeals to good will") while the Communist press struck the only sour note ("preachifying is mingled with . . . unreasonable demands"). In Italy, Prime Minister Alcide de Gasperi called it "honest and vigorous." Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, coming to the end of his U.S. visit, was enthusiastic; so, back home, was his Socialist opponent, Eric...
Have your child baptized early, the vicar of St. Saviour's in Walthamstow, England urged his parishioners. The Rev. Cyril W. Nye, 61, was not voicing concern about the little ones tossing in limbo; it was their tossing in his arms that bothered him. Said he: "Please, please try to bring your children along before they are two months old. Babies of six months and over are uncommonly awkward to handle. When the baptismal water is poured over their heads, they react strongly and try to get away . . . That can be quite tricky with a healthy, struggling infant...
Telegrams of protest poured into the House of Commons. A band of 50 M.P.s, mostly Bevanites, tried to debate the subject and were ruled out of order. Then Nye Bevan led a deputation representing 150 M.P.s to Sir David's office-without success. Bentley's parents appealed to Prime Minister Churchill, to the Duke of Edinburgh, to Queen Elizabeth herself...
Rebellious Nye Bevan automatically took a back seat in Parliament nearly two years ago when he resigned the Labor Ministry and began his long feud with then Prime Minister Clement Attlee. Last week Rebel Nye moved up front again. By the narrowest of squeaks, the Laborites in Parliament voted him into the twelfth place (out of twelve) in the Opposition's "shadow cabinet," which faces the real cabinet across the open floor of the House of Commons. It was a Pyrrhic victory for Nye, for as one of Labor's official Parliamentary spokesmen, sitting on the front bench...
...Bulky Nye Bevan obviously did not think it was time for a showdown. Nye had been expelled by the party once before (in 1939, for peddling Popular Frontism); what's more, he did not have the votes to challenge Attlee. "There is nothing sinister in the Bevan group," he said, hand on heart. "Let us put off [a vote] until the next session of [Parliament]." But the majority turned him down. By 188 votes to 51 (with 53 Laborites absent or abstaining), the Parliamentary Labor Party endorsed Attlee's ultimatum. The Bevanites would probably disband as a group...