Word: unilateralist
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Harold" Macmillan) is rated the brightest but most nakedly ambitious of Labor's younger generation. Though he opposes unilateral disarmament as vigorously as Gaitskell himself does (in fact, he helped write Gaitskell's pro-NATO defense plank). Little Harold saw a chance for political advancement in the unilateralist rebellion, offered himself as leader on a vague program of compromise. But when the moment came, the usually glib Wilson stumbled. "A bad case badly put," sighed one disapproving Laborite. When the votes were counted last week, Gaitskell had defeated Wilson 166 to 81. Relaxing, the M.P.s greeted the results...
...shattered party then adjourned its fight to Parliament, where Unilateralist Sydney Silverman warned Rab Butler, Conservative House leader, that Gaitskell "doesn't speak for his party in defense matters." Happily, Butler agreed that the Tories would take into account whatever "Hydra-headed arrangements may emerge." Their tempers already short from the intraparty fight, leftist Labor M.P.s exploded last week when Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announced that Britain had agreed to allow the U.S. to use the port of Holy Loch on Scotland's Firth of Clyde as a base for Polaris submarines. In describing the agreement, Macmillan stretched...