10 AUGUST 1956, Page 6

OPPOSITION INTELLIGENCE

MR. GAITSKELL has given the Government a general blessing, and out- wardly the [Labour] leadership has never been more united. Even Mr. Herbert Morrison, who has hardly been on speaking terms with the new young men at the top, intervened in last week's debate and supported the Government.—The Political Correspondent of the Observer, August 5.

-HERBERT MORRISON'S blunder was the whispered political talk of the week . . . suddenly, last Tuesday, he tried to make things awkward for Hugh Gaitskell. Apparently unaware of the arrangement made bY Butler 'at the request of the Opposition,' he demanded a full day's debate on the Cairo crisis . . . Gaitskell was embarrassed.—Hannen Swaffer in the People. August 5.