Word: zilliacus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since war's end, Konni Zilliacus had been zooming and buzzing around the Labor government's left flank like a gnat harassing an elephant. Several times, the great beast had flapped its ears in protest. Last week it hauled off with its trunk and struck. Konni Zilliacus, M.P. for Gateshead, longtime Fabian and fellow traveler, was formally read out of the Labor Party...
...fortnight over 60 Labor M.P.s have flouted direct party orders in voting on two major issues. With the recent string of Labor defeats in local contests, and a general election looming up next year, Attlee was at last forced to discipline the rebels. As the most cantankerous of them, Zilliacus had to go first...
Along with Zilliacus, the Labor executive committee expelled 43-year-old Barrister Leslie Judah Solley, member for Thurrock, Essex. Solley had publicly opposed British policy in Greece, voted against participation in the European Recovery Program. Fired from their jobs, though not from the party, were five of the cabinet's parliamentary private secretaries* who had voted against the government's bill to establish Britain's relationship with Ireland. Said one of the purged, ruefully: "If you vote against the government on a 'three line whip' [direct orders from party whips to vote] you are sticking...
...Konni Zilliacus did not take so philosophic a view. Last week he announced that he planned to run again for his House of Commons seat as an Independent Laborite. Said he darkly: "The fight for the soul of the Labor Party, which is also the fight for peace, has now begun...
...Labor Party had already censured the British Communists' most eloquent spokesman, who is not a Communist-burly, buck-toothed Konni ("Zilly") Zilliacus, intellectual Laborite M.P. who wants Britain to help Communist Russia set up control of Europe against U.S. "imperialists." Zilly and twelve other Labor M.P.s who follow the Russian line had recently sent a friendly message to the Russian-sponsored "People's Congress" in Berlin. The Parliamentary Labor Party passed a resolution that "This meeting . .. dissociates itself from the message . . . [which] in no way reflects [our] attitude or views...