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Under the surface lay a deep split in the Labor Party on the rearmament issue. A few of its members were proCommunist, more were anti-American, and still more were bemused by the pacifism which had a longtime influence on British Christian Socialism. Last week 19 Labor M.P.s signed motions calling for reconsideration of plans to arm Germany and for a world peace drive by Britain...
...Labor Party split was symbolized by the fact that Harold Lawrence, running for the House of Commons in a by-election at Bristol, is an all-out, no-arms, no-armor pacifist and the official candidate of the Labor Party, which is committed to rearmament. Attlee refused to send Lawrence the usual letter of endorsement, but his approval by the party executive committee was not revoked...
...meeting became so explosive that Attlee stepped to Webb's defense, bringing with him the bogeyman that keeps all Laborites awake-the ghost of Ramsay Macdonald. Would Labor split on meat, and go down to defeat as Macdonald's divided party had in 1931? The caucus was stilled into grumbling acquiescence...
...Chau last week, Regional Counselor Ter-Sarkissoff broke open the case of champagne, split a warm bottle with a TIME correspondent. Looking out upon the peaceable, beautiful country of the Thais and the Muongs, Counselor Sarkis-soff said: "It's really beautiful...
...barometer reading was clear: new investors had come into 1950's bull market in such a big way that Merrill Lynch's net income shot up to a record $12.5 million -more than five times last year's. Merrill Lynch's 86 participating partners split a net profit (after taxes...