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...speak for Labor's leadership, probably did not speak for more than 10% to 20% of the 12 million Britons who voted for the Labor party in last October's balloting. What happened then? The Labor decision, voted in the windy Yorkshire seaside resort of Scarborough, was an outpouring of feuding and bitterness over past defeats, fed by resentment of the U.S. and inspired by the combination of idealism, fears and pacifism that always lurks among Laborites...
...time, can always outvote the so-called constituency parties, which represent the actual British voter. In union halls and smoke-filled rooms, all the big unions had registered their stands and committed their huge bloc votes last summer. When the conference chairman banged his opening gavel in the big Scarborough auditorium, only the delegates representing the various constituency parties remained free to swing their votes-and the only question left undecided was the size of Hugh Gaitskell's defeat. Burly Frank Cousins, leftist boss of the giant Transport and General Workers Union, was driving for a million-vote majority...
...Scarborough Conference rejected that policy in explicit terms, overruling it by a vote of 3,339,000 to 3,042,000. When it passed the motion of the Transport Workers, a left-wing union led by the voluble Frank Cousin's, Labour in fact committed itself to the rejection of "any defense policy based on the threat or use of strategic or tactical nuclear weapons...
Leaves Canceled. In Buffalo, U.S.O. Director Mrs. Odessa Shipley thought she knew just how to entertain 230 visiting sailors from H.M.S. Scarborough, was terribly surprised when 1,000 tea bags went untouched...
English Bull. In Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, while welcoming delegates to the annual conference of Britain's Law Society, the deputy mayor announced that the mayor was out of town, explained: "If he were here, I am sure he would be the first to apologize for his absence...