Before crowded galleries, Sir Anthony Eden rose in the House of Commons last week to move the approval of the London and Paris accords on German rearmament. "The only real alternative," he said, "would be to plunge the West into confusion and despair. Is anybody seriously going to contend we should be better able to negotiate with Soviet Russia if we were in that particular condition?"
Eden had high hopes that the accords would go through unanimously. Herbert Morrison pledged Labor's official support. The Bevanites, voted down in party caucus before the...
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