Word: scarborough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arena was the seaside town of Scarborough, where delegates sharing among them the proxies for more than 6,000,000 members of the Labor Party gathered for their annual conference. Nye Bevan's followers were loud and vociferous; only two weeks before, at the Trades Union Congress, they had come close to carrying the day on the German issue. At Scarborough, they expected to be stronger, felt they had Clem Attlee hanging by a thread...
...France. The nine-power agreement was well covered by American papers. What was not so well documented was the decision by the Labor Party, after a bitter fight and a close vote, to underwrite the government's German policy. The Labor decision was made a week earlier at Scarborough; it means that the British guarantee to France will remain basically unchanged by any shift in the present government...
...Conference was also a test of Clement Attlee's leadership of the Labor Party. Attlee and the National Executive were pledged to some form of German rearmament, while the Bevanites in the party choose this issue to make a test of Executive strength. Attlee returned from Peking to Scarborough to find a Conference agenda packed with resolutions against rearmament, the constituency parties solidly backing these resolutions, and even some of the Trade Unions, the traditional source of Attlee's strength, siding with Bevan on the issue. On the eve of the rearmament vote, the London Times, noting this Trade Union...
Attlee was more concerned with the annual Labor Party Congress opening this week at Scarborough. There, Attlee and his moderates would be engaged in a fight with the left-wing rebels of Aneurin Bevan over German rearmament...
...fight for Labor's policy on Germany was only just beginning. At Scarborough this week, Clement Attlee was likely to need all the party popularity he gained by being soft toward Communists in Asia, to persuade the Labor Party to be tough toward Communists in Europe...