Word: unilateralist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Master Sinner. In deference to Labor's unilateralist disarmers, Wilson had pledged that, once in office, he would not only scrap Britain's independent deterrent but also oppose the U.S.-backed multi-lateral force. However, in his talks with President Johnson in Washington, he had, in fact, not so much opposed MLF as proposed a way of enlarging and diluting it. In reporting on his talks to the party conference, Wilson hedged: he had not committed Britain to MLF. he said, and had entirely "reserved" his position. This was patently less than the whole truth, but enough...
...Socialist dogma that have exploded at every previous conference for a decade. While scrupulously obeying his pledge to base his policies on Gaitskell's program, Wilson has maneuvered brilliantly to regroup the Labor Party on its responsible middle ground. Though he was elected with support from the neutralist, unilateralist left, he soon made it clear that he does not share its views and has isolated the extremists from the rest of the party. By giving right-wingers most of the choice jobs in his Shadow Cabinet, he won the grudging allegiance of the loyal Gaitskellites, who have...
Hugh Gaitskell's sudden illness and death were fate's cruelest blow to a nation plagued by difficulties in economics, defense and diplomacy. His quiet, persistent reasonableness rescued the Labor party from the chaos of a unilateralist position on disarmament and a total commitment to nationalization. His stature made the possibility of a Labor government seem palatable to many conservatives who saw the Tories collapsing in muddled confusion...
...soft-thinker. An appeaser. A Munich-seeker. A dove. A better-red-than-deader. An ill-concealed unilateralist...
...clear up some definitions then. Would you call yourself a unilateralist...