One of Atlee's supArthur DOLLCIs, general secretary transport union. insisted: "The present squabble is around ant principle at all, but rather around personalities' Similarly, ( Michael Foot last week sought to reduce Benn's statements representing than attack on my good faith' In 1952 Bevan replied: 'Is a socialist in danger of being expelled the Labour Party for voting against the Tories? Remembering Foot's attempt to try and get Benn to resign from the Shadow defence vote IS teresting to record wenae Foot's conclu. sions on the former:
une aspect ortac coll troversy showed no sign of subsiding. Persistently the newspapers described the debate in terms of 'Bevan versus Atlee, Bevan's grab for power' "If I disap peared tomorrow" said 'the same issues would still be there. It is time this obscene preoccupation with individual lives and careers gave way Iо à more dispassionate consideration of tacts' Ambitious 'Could it really be that his personal