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...before, Aneurin Bevan, the man who will be Foreign Secretary in any new Labor government, laid down his views at a preconference rally. Bevan had just come back from a tour in which he met face to face with Khrushchev, Zhukov, Gomulka and other Soviet-bloc leaders. Nye seemed to have seen much good, observed little evil, and gained no wisdom...
...leader of the Labor Party 19 months ago moderate Hugh Gaitskell has been trying to reassure the British public that his party is no longer wildly socialistic-and hoping that the party's left wing would not overhear him and prove him wrong. The leftist followers of Aneurin Bevan suspect Gaitskell of trying to make Labor "not a Socialist Party at all but a mere ginger group for making capitalism work more efficiently and humanely." Last week, after much labor, the party brought forth a manifesto on the subject, which the Economist promptly dubbed "Mouse with a Leer...
...Agreement Is Unnecessary." A fortnight ago, the full Socialist International Congress met in Vienna. No longer so tactful, Nye Bevan bluntly compared "the sufferings in Algeria" to "the persecutions ... in Hungary," and the Scandinavians made their disapproval painfully clear by abstaining when Guy Mollet (who was not present) was elected a vice president of the International. Back in Paris last week, sturdy Pierre Commin, who headed the French delegation, professed himself undismayed by the Socialist schizophrenia revealed at Vienna...
Bilingual Spellbinder. No simple tribesman, Mboya bounces around the countryside in a Volkswagen. His library is studded with the works of Mark Twain, Tom Paine and Plato, and his politics have the pinkish hue of the Nye Bevan Laborites who have taken him up in Britain. He is articulate in English and a spellbinder in Swahili. Last year he toured the U.S. and returned home with $35,000 from the C.I.O.-A.F.L. to build a headquarters for his Kenya Labor Federation...
...whose early resignation was now freely predicted by the British press) tried to put a hopeful face on it by saying that "certain practical lessons have been learned about the consequences of the canal being out of operation." Jabbing his finger toward Macmillan, Labor's honey-voiced Aneurin Bevan demolished Lloyd with a single blow. "There is no reason to attack the monkey," sneered Bevan, "when the organ-grinder is present...