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...first time in twelve years, Labor will go to the polls unhampered by intra-party strife. Since he took over the leadership after Hugh Gaitskell's death, Harold Wilson has maneuvered to unite a party bitterly split on the question of succession. Last month, at the Labor convention in Scarborough, he succeeded. His keynote address was exuberantly acclaimed by delegates, and his persistent rival, Deputy Leader George Brown, gave a now-is-the-time-for-all-good-men-to-come-to-the-aid-of-the-party speech on Wilson's behalf...
...atingle in Scarborough last week as 2,000 delegates poured joyously into the windswept seaside resort for the Labor Party's 62nd annual conference. It wasn't just salt they sniffed on the North Sea breeze. From the elegant old clifftop hotels to the pubs where Laborites adjourned for their midmorning pints, Scarborough smelled of victory...
...first time in their twelve years out of office, the Laborites who filled Scarborough's three-tiered Spa Great Hall were buoyantly aware that all Britain was watching them-and the man who is expected by the majority (56%) of Britons to be their next Prime Minister. The delegates fidgeted impatiently through the first day of ho-hum oratory. Finally, at the stroke of 10 o'clock next morning, Harold Wilson rose to make the keynote speech as the new leader of the Labor Party. For a solid minute, the delegates roared and clapped their approval, while Wilson...
...week, were begging party officials "to get them inspired." There was no doubt about the Labor delegates' mood as they bellowed The Red Flag ("Come dungeon dark or gallows grim/ This song shall be our parting hymn") and hit the road to Jerusalem. The wind of change from Scarborough was infectious. "Me vote Tory?" exclaimed one Soho pub pundit. "That would be like Noah picketing the flood...
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