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...cheering sounded, either for Attlee as he sat down or for Bevan as he rose to reply. There were few men in the room who did not remember 1931, when the Labor Party under Ramsay MacDonald splintered hopelessly and left Labor in the wilderness for a decade. With Celtic scorn, Nye Bevan sought to show that other Socialists than he had insulted Clement Attlee. Manny Shinwell, for instance, said Bevan. And Dick Stokes, the burly M.P. from Ipswich; only last year he had sneered at Attlee's leadership by quoting what he said was a Chinese proverb: "A fish...
Died. Sir John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, 80, veteran British lawyer-statesman. Foreign Secretary under Ramsay MacDonald (1931-35), Neville Chamberlain's Chancellor of the Exchequer (1937-40), who, in his memoirs, published in 1952, stoutly defended the "essential Tightness" of the 1938 Munich pact with the Axis; in London...
...salesgirl working a 76-hour week in London, soon organized a union among her sister workers. No ultra-feminist, "Saint Maggie" rose through the ranks of the male-led labor movement to head its powerful Trades Union Congress. Elected to Parliament (1923), Socialist Bondfield became Minister of Labor in Ramsay MacDonald's short-lived Labor government...
...lost his seat. He joined the Labor Party, got back in the House of Commons, where he served with fidelity to his party but without any great distinction, except that he had one of the most mellifluous speaking voices in British public life. Attorney General under Labor's Ramsay MacDonald, Solicitor General in Churchill's wartime coalition government, he was finally named Lord Chancellor when Labor came to power in 1945, as a reward for party service...
...from an annual ?5,000,000 government grant. It boasts one of the nation's largest cyclotrons, England's best medical and dental schools, research institutes of every sort from law to archaeology. The faculty has included such well-known Britons as Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Sir William Ramsay, Sociologist Barbara Wootton. Humorist Stephen (Gamesmanship} Potter, Philosophers...