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...Nye Bevan was a changed and embittered man. Ever since he broke with Clement Attlee over the Labor Party's support for a Southeast Asia alliance and German rearmament, Bevan had kept to himself. Night after night he sat brooding in the "Bevanite" corner of the Commons' Smoke Room with one or two henchmen. Only rarely did the old wit flash out, the great laugh boom...
...guns for the Hun." The National Union of Railwaymen (323,000 members) announced their support. Many small unions chimed in. But Britain's biggest union (the Transport and General Workers) and its fourth biggest (the General and Municipal Workers) pledged themselves to Gaitskell. Last. week the miners, Nye's own union (and Britain's second biggest with 683,000 members) met to choose their candidate...
Once the miners had come over the Welsh hills singing hymns as they came and crying aloud for "Nyrin, a king among men." Nye had gone down in the pits as one of them, with them had ridden the grimy streetcars, allotted to keep miners apart from clean folk. Miners held him their champion when he ranted against the Tory "vermin." In the Labor Party's councils, Nye was a leader of the tough unionists with small patience for the pale, university-trained Fabians such as Hugh Gaitskell. Unless Nye could capture the vote of his own miners...
...only-accomplishment of the Army-McCarthy hearings has been the introduction of Joseph Nye Welch to American televiewers. His wonderful performance is the best entertainment I've had in years. Thank you . . . for his background sketch [TIME...
...keen on the trip. It would add to Red China's prestige in countries like India and Burma, and besides, said Attlee, "I do not know what my wife will say. I'm too old to be flying about." Also going along: Party Secretary Phillips, Nye Bevan. "We were not informed or consulted," was the chilly Foreign Office reaction...