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...empire-India, Burma, Ceylon. At home it has nationalized transport, coal, electric power, aviation, overseas communication and the Bank of England. It has also raised taxes and cut rations, and its popularity has taken a definite, although possibly not decisive, slump. Last week the Labor Party met at Scarborough in its annual conference to take stock of its accomplishments and chart its further aims. From Scarborough TIME Senior Editor Max Ways reported...
...sense of power and glory that was Britain and might be Britain still is not in these men. They seem too humble even for middleclass, easygoing Scarborough, and much too modest for its Grand Hotel. Yet these modest men indubitably believe themselves the architects of a greater Britain, followers of a loftier vision than Pitt or Disraeli or Churchill...
...beneath the double covering of trade union caution and British restraint, a fire smolders. Again & again at Scarborough it flashed forth in spite of restrained notes struck by Emanuel Shinwell, the conference chairman, and Herbert Morrison, Labor's Leader of the House of Commons. Morrison called for a period of "consolidation." He indicated that party bosses were going slow on further nationalization of industry...
Should boys-even little boys-be taught by women? No, said Britain's National Association of Schoolmasters, whose members teach in local council and church schools. At Scarborough last week, the schoolmasters unanimously agreed that teaching was "man's work," and called for a law to abolish schoolmarms. Grumped Schoolmaster D. N. Thomas: "These avaricious hordes of women already have staked a claim in our field, and the sooner they are smoked out, the better it will be for the boys of this country...
Candidates: Dewey George Archambault, Jr., Blair Morton Boyd, Jr., John Bertrand Cadigan, Jr., John Edwin Carlson, Jr., Thomas Henry Collins, Walter Coulson, Frederick Deane, Jr., John Morton Dunn, Weston Joseph Durant, Robert Scarborough Erakine, Jr., Allan Sulyard Garon, Charles Nelson Gregg, Jr., Peter Green Harwood, Harry, Peter Haveles...