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Telegrams of protest poured into the House of Commons. A band of 50 M.P.s, mostly Bevanites, tried to debate the subject and were ruled out of order. Then Nye Bevan led a deputation representing 150 M.P.s to Sir David's office-without success. Bentley's parents appealed to Prime Minister Churchill, to the Duke of Edinburgh, to Queen Elizabeth herself...
Rebellious Nye Bevan automatically took a back seat in Parliament nearly two years ago when he resigned the Labor Ministry and began his long feud with then Prime Minister Clement Attlee. Last week Rebel Nye moved up front again. By the narrowest of squeaks, the Laborites in Parliament voted him into the twelfth place (out of twelve) in the Opposition's "shadow cabinet," which faces the real cabinet across the open floor of the House of Commons. It was a Pyrrhic victory for Nye, for as one of Labor's official Parliamentary spokesmen, sitting on the front bench...
...Bulky Nye Bevan obviously did not think it was time for a showdown. Nye had been expelled by the party once before (in 1939, for peddling Popular Frontism); what's more, he did not have the votes to challenge Attlee. "There is nothing sinister in the Bevan group," he said, hand on heart. "Let us put off [a vote] until the next session of [Parliament]." But the majority turned him down. By 188 votes to 51 (with 53 Laborites absent or abstaining), the Parliamentary Labor Party endorsed Attlee's ultimatum. The Bevanites would probably disband as a group...
...meeting of parliamentary front benchers Attlee himself cast aside the cloak of neutrality he has tried up to now to wear as party leader. In tart, hot temper, he outlined an ultimatum to the Bevanites-disband the party-within-a-party and stop calling names in public. Nye Bevan, his eyes round with affected innocence, faced the challenge with the wounded mien of a child accused of palming the queen in a game of Old Maid. With hands spread wide, he offered to throw his group meetings open to all and let "those who suspect us come and hear...
Responsible Attleeites were still seething over Nye's performance next day when the results of partywide elections for membership in the new executive committee were announced. In the seven constituency elections, which are the best barometer of rank & file party sentiment, the Bevanites won six out of seven seats. Bevan himself got the biggest vote (965,000), followed by red-haired Barbara Castle (868,000) and cocky Tom Driberg (744,000). For the first time in 23 years, Attlee's faithful lieutenant, Herbert Morrison, the lifelong trade unionist who became Foreign Secretary, was voted off the executive...