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...West German withdrawal from NATO and East German withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact. ("A most unequal bargain," says British Laborite Nye Bevan...
...Wheel or to Charge. The job of rousing an indifferent electorate fell overwhelmingly to Leader Gaitskell. Old Rival Nye Bevan ostentatiously stepped back, indicating by an open reference to his age ("I am 60") that he would rather be a potential Foreign Secretary than a rebel who would never be Prime Minister. That left the left-wingers without a head but still capable of making a lot of noise. With the help of the stolid old trade-union wheel-horses who are the strength of the party, Gaitskell skillfully headed off the more headlong Socialist chargers. Hell-bent for equality...
Emerson College Joseph Nye Welch, the Army's attorney in the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings Litt.D...
...party's ranks boded ill just at a time when virtually every poll showed them well ahead of the Tories in popularity. They have not forgotten that a bitter division on defense policy sent the party to defeat in the 1951 and 1955 elections. Then it was Nye Bevan who led the divisive revolt against German rearmament. Day after last week's debate, the Labor Executive Committee, including "Shadow Foreign Minister" Nye Bevan, summoned leaders of the Victory-for-Socialism group to answer for their "activities...
Irrepressible Nye Bevan concluded for the opposition. Noting that one impassioned Tory defender of heredity had cited Bevan's own respect for the "science of breeding" in raising pigs on his Buckinghamshire farm, Nye gleefully commented: "I must say that I thought that was an inelegant metaphor. I should never have thought of using it myself. I am not quite certain what the test is to be. In pig breeding, it is length and leanness. If we are to make the [tests] on biological grounds, we ought to have the members of another place [the Commons' phrase...