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...Joseph Nye Welch, 63, the Army's special counsel for the investigation, speaks with a honeyed fluency and a meaningful grin that hints of legal cunning. Iowa-born Welch, a Boston lawyer, when in his Boston office, does most of his work standing at a high, old-fashioned clerk's desk...
...police summons was issued for Aneurin Bevan. charging him with dangerous driving and failure to stop after an accident. The accident, near London, was a minor affair, but it was not the only charge of recklessness made last week against Nye Bevan...
...there was also evidence that Nye had struck a popular chord among the millions of Britons who fear Germany, resent the U.S. and think that the Communists would behave better if not antagonized. Nye's opposition to German rearmament was supported 2 to 1 by the convention of the Cooperative Party, which controls 18 Labor seats in Parliament, by delegates of Britain's sixth largest union, and by the Labor Party of Northern Ireland in convention...
Ever since he made his peace with Atlee and joined the shadow cabinet after his 1951 resignation from the Labor Cabinet. Nye Bevan has been biding his time and waiting his chance to seize leadership from Atlee and the Labor moderates. But some of his closest friends admitted last week that Nye had let his emotions on the Indo-China issue and the importuning of some of his hotheaded followers get the better of his judgment. Attlee's prestige was higher than it had been in months from his responsible handling of the recent H-bomb debate, in which...
...Nye's walkout left Attlee securely in command but the party as a whole weakened. It certainly jeopardized Bevan's own prospects of a Cabinet job if Labor got back...