Labour Intelligence
'I THINK perhaps the younger generation is forgetful of tile past.'—Mr. Attlee on Television.
'INSTEAD. of blaming the younger people because they do not remember the bad days of unemployment, we must under- stand their outlook, their desires, and their interests in 1955.'— Mr. Gaitskell, Manchester Guardian, June 3.
`NYE BEVAN is worth over one million votes to the Tory Party.'—Mr. Woodrow Wyatt, Sunday Express, May 29.
HE HOPED that when Hugh Gaitskell and Woodrow Wyatt were analysing the election result they would not dodge `their own share of the blame.'—Mr. Mikardo, Daily Worker, June 6.
'Now THE KNIVES will be out. Now the real row will begin. All the other rows within this divided party will pale into insignificance, beside this one—Daily Sketch, May 28.
`THE 1955 ELECTION has taught Labour as a whole, and the Bevanites in particular, a sharp lesson on the fruitlessness of civil war.'—Mr. Percy Cudlipp, News Chronicle, June 1.
`MEN LIKE [Michael Foot] on the other side were one of the best assets the Tories have at election time . . . their sourness, their rancour, their irresponsibility inflame the other side into a burning determination to get out and vote against them.'—'- Lord Hailsham, Sunday Graphic, June 5.
'MICHAEL FOOT is a man of considerably greater moral stature than all the rest of the Bevanites put together.'—Henry Fairlie, Spectator, June 3.
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