Word: scarborough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There are some who say that we have nothing left to say, that we did all we had to do after 1945," exclaimed Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell, his wiry hair flying, his sharply whittled nose pecking the air with indignation. Before him in Scarborough's Spa Grand Hall, some 1,500 Labor Party delegates sat in somber conclave last week for what all presumed would be their last annual conference before a general election in the spring...
...little Davy Crocketts and little Daughters of the Republic." "It appears to me," said former President W. W. Kemmerer of the University of Houston later, "that the board is encircling the state with a cotton curtain to prevent the children from peeping out." Nonsense, retorted Acting Superintendent G. C. Scarborough, a member of the local White Citizens' Council: "We're just drifting back to the fundamentals...
Gift from the Gods. It was not by any means Scarborough's only blow at the clamorous ambitions of Nye Bevan. He was soundly licked for party treasurer by his arch rival Hugh Gaitskell and, since he had deliberately refused to stand for sure re-election to the party executive, this left him without an official position in the party leadership for the first time in ten years...
Bevan had suffered a humiliating and probably a final defeat in his dramatic drive to capture the Labor Party from the moderates. "The strange alliance of Bevanites, pacifists, nonconformists, free-elections-and-reunification-firsters, anti-Germans, carpetbaggers and bandwagon-jumpers and lunatic-fringers was shattered [at Scarborough] and became once more disparate and unhomogeneous," said the Manchester Guardian."This issue was for [Bevan] a gift from the gods, and he failed...
Last week, covering the Labor Party conference at Scarborough (see FOREIGN NEWS), Cassandra gave a demonstration of what Editorial Director Cudlipp means. Writing in the Laborite Mirror, Cassandra blasted Labor Party Chief Clement Attlee: "The whole effect [of his report on his trip to Red China] was that we can do business with Peking ... It is a sinister theme ... It is also a tempting theme ... It was the hope of the Foreign Office and also of Neville Chamberlain that both Nazi Germany and Communist Russia would destroy each other by their complementary antagonism . . . Kicking this dream around is like pretending...