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The Revolt Against Bevin
A British Labor rebel reveals the inside story of the political fight over Britain’s foreign policy February 1 1947 RICHARD CROSSMAN, M.P.
The Revolt Against Bevin
RICHARD CROSSMAN, M.P.
A British Labor rebel reveals the inside story of the political fight over Britain’s foreign policy
During a debate in the British House of Commons last November, Richard H. Crossman, Labor Member of Parliament for East Coventry, proposed an amendment in which he called on the Labor Government to review and recast its foreign policy and “provide a democratic and constructive Socialist alternative to an otherwise inevitable conflict between American capitalism and Soviet communism.”