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Ernest Bevin, the bull elephant of British labor, last week sat bulkily silent, beadily watchful, in the back row at a caucus of Parliament's Laborite members. The proposal: to expel from the Party his homonym-pink, grizzled Welshman Aneurin Bevan. The crime: Laborite Be-van's revolt against Labor Minister Bevin in the House of Commons...
...Aneurin Bevan talked, Ernie Bevin restlessly shifted his weight, impatiently flung his farm-hardened hands about in gestures he had long used to brush aside opponents, soundlessly worked his pudgy lips. At the end there was no decision. The caucus chairman, indecisive Socialist Arthur Greenwood, was clearly afraid that the ouster would fail. And failure would have been equal to repudiation of Ernest Bevin, a serious thing on the eve of Britain's greatest war effort. The crisis was postponed. But it remained a crisis...
Equal Hasps. "Beachcomber" uses the hasp* situation as a peg for the blithe puncturing of postwar planners, youth groups, aged conservatives, bureaucratic red tape, military dignity (a favorite character is "Captain Foulenough"), political coalitions (the Independent National Anti-Coupon Pro-Caucus Semi-Conservatives) and many matters British. Thus...
...House, Minority Leader Joseph W. Martin called a caucus of his party members to discuss the President's message. It was a fizzle. Only concrete proposal to come out of the meeting: a resolution for a simplified income-tax return...
Mackenzie King and his Liberal Party leaders studied this worrisome situation at their first wartime caucus in Ottawa. The Prime Minister was bellicose; he roundly castigated his opponents, declared against a general election for the duration, but left himself room to call a quick one if expedient. The party truce was off; from now on, it would be Politics Unlimited...