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...week, Britain's ailing (duodenal ulcer) Prime Minister left his hospital bed only to face another, deeply worrisome jigsaw puzzle: how to patch up the torn fabric of his Labor Party. He appointed new ministers (see box) to fill the posts left vacant by the rebellious resignations of Nye Bevan and Harold Wilson (TIME, April 30) and the death of Ernest Bevin. Then he tried to rally his followers against Left-Winger Bevan...
Upstairs & Downstairs. In a parliamentary committee room where Labor leaders faced the rebel, Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell put aside his donnish suavity for a hard go at Nye Bevan. "He hit me hard," said Gaitskell, "so I'm going to hit him back." Though many members sympathized with Bevan's argument that rearmament should not lower Britain's standard of living, they were angered by his threat to split the Labor Party. Under pressure, Bevan finally went along with his colleagues in a pledge not to take part in any action likely to endanger party...
...Nye" Bevan, leader of Labor's left wing, which Prime Minister Clement Attlee has tried long and hard to appease, walked out after charging in effect that Attlee was betraying Labor party principles, that the government would split and collapse as Ramsay MacDonald...
Parliamentary corridors buzzed with rumors that Nye Bevan meant to make good lis threat to resign from the cabinet. Most Tories scoffed; from their opposition benches they needled the Minister of Labor-"the main advocate of waste and extravagance of all forms." Cracked Conservative M.P. Osbert Peake: "The Chancellor . . . has succeeded where his predecessors all failed; and even if the Chancellor has not yet succeeded in deflating our swollen economy, he has well and ruly disinflated the pouter pigeon of the Treasury dovecote...
Five years of power and responsibility had made Labor's leaders cautious on the once-beloved doctrine of nationalization. At Margate last week a proposal to nationalize the building industry made even the leftists of the Labor Party wince. Health Minister Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan said: "What you are really saying is 'let's nationalize every industry in Great Britain.'" Cried a voice...