Word: unilateralist
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...clear up some definitions then. Would you call yourself a unilateralist...
...issue of nuclear disarmament, the position of the British Labor Party has been ambiguous. Many left-wing unionists, pursuing a traditional, sentimental pacifism, sympathize with the unilateralist ban-the-bomb campaign led by Philosopher Bertrand Russell and other politically woozy intellectuals; at a national party convention 18 months ago, the left-wingers pushed through resolutions demanding that Britain renounce nuclear weapons. Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell later won a reversal of the party's official stand, but not until last week did he attack the nuclear disarmers in a scathing, unequivocal denunciation that drew only cheers from realistic antiCommunists...
...East Germany," he told the demonstrators. "Go and see what it's like to deal with Soviet police and Soviet tanks, like the Hungarian people. Perhaps you will learn something about the Soviet empire and the Communist dictatorship." Then Gaitskell said publicly what many have known: the unilateralist Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is infiltrated by Communists. "Having failed miserably by free democratic methods, all they can do is to try to deny free speech to others. I am proud to provoke the hatred of those who hate freedom...
Tocsin has been described as the "right wing of student groups;" Peace Union, formed last year the University of Chicago, is the most radical, having adopted of the character of unilateralist Russell's committee of Great Britain; Students for a Society, the youth wing League for Industrial Democracy SANE, and the American Service Committee are somewhere tween Tocsin...
...Labour much better off. At the Blackpool conference Hugh Gaitskell managed to persuade the delegates to adopt a moderate platform ("Signposts for the Sixties") and to vote overwhelmingly against the unilateral disarmament policy that they approved last year. The unilateralist left under Frank Cousins has growled that it will not be reconciled to defeat, and indeed Mr. Cousins has not done too badly. Although the majority of the party's National Executive is Gaitskellite, the minority is almost exclusively, extremely and intransigeantly leftist...