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...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...
...such unpleasant and often intangible stuff is fateful political decision made. This week, when Britain's Labor Party meets in its Scarborough conference, it faces a close and bitter division on the most urgent such decision before the West-the rearming of Germany. A Labor delegate, an advocate of German rearmament fighting fierce rank-and-file opposition, said on the eve of the conference: "Senator McCarthy may well decide this vote. All he stands for-all his identification with American policy in the eyes of average people-will force something between 500,000 and 1,000,000 votes...
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...
...Moscow. Why did Attlee go? In political terms, it was because he knew that rabble-rousing Nye Bevan would go. Attlee, as a supporter of German rearmament, well knew that he will come under heavy attack from Bevan's left-wing supporters at the Labor Party conference at Scarborough late this month. If Attlee did not go, Nye would appear the anointed apostle of peace, bringing fair-sounding pledges from Malenkov and Mao. And Bevan could paint Attlee as the dour and unpopular proponent of "Guns for the Huns" who refused...