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...White House, the Russell announcement was greeted with real concern. Harry Truman, who personally respects and likes the Georgia Senator, knows that the movement Dick Russell leads is something bigger than the ineffectual revolt of the Dixiecrat fringe in 1948. It could cause an irreparable split in the Democratic Party; it could prevent the re-election of Harry Truman or the election of the heir he chooses. It cannot be laughed...
...most dramatic foreign-policy debate in the House of Commons since Neville Chamberlain's rough days after the fall of Norway in 1940. When it was over, Prime Minister Churchill had turned back a Labor Party move to censure him personally for his foreign policy, and had split their ranks with two major explosions. The late Labor government, he revealed, had covertly made the very foreign policy commitment-a promise to join the U.S. in possible extension of the Korean war-for which they were attacking Churchill. And the Labor regime, while campaigning against the Conservatives as warmongers...
...quite a week for Nye Bevan. He was much too shrewd to try now to wrest party control from Attlee, Morrison & Co.: why split the party when things are going his way? "One wave may shudder the cliff," explained a Bevan strategist, "but it's the steady tide that wears it away...
...Split Over Soviet...
...split became apparent, Tucker said, when the two factions couldn't agree on the issue of Soviet aggression. "We're interested in general policies, such as opposition to violence everywhere. They were interested in more singular objectives like demilitarization in mainly one country...