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...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...
...worried that he may not be up to the day-to-day demands of his job. There were reports that he would shortly turn over affairs to ailing Anthony Eden, who at Margate spoke animatedly but looked exhausted. Talk of a new general election was in the air. Noisy Nye Bevan had already demanded that Sir Winston should "clear out . . . if he is unable to do his duty"; and even the London Times had sternly warned that "the Prime Minister must satisfy himself and the nation that he is physically equal to the task ahead." At Margate...
...demand for a Big Four conference, Attlee has made political capital by 1) agreeing with it, 2) blasting the Tory government for letting the U.S. State Department calm Sir Winston down. Last week Attlee was busy with an even cleverer move: to reunite the feuding Labor Party and cut "Nye" Bevan down to size by taking over the Bevanite program and making...