Hugh Gaitskell - Revision history

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Chancellor of the Exchequer 1950-51, Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party 1955-1963.

==Covert US support==
For much of the 1950s, Labour was divided between right-wing 'Gaitskellites' and left-wing 'Bevanites.'
Ramsay and Dorril state that Gaitskell received US support for his attempt to expel [[Aneurin Bevan]] from the party in 1955.

::"Gaitskell held a series of meetings at the Russell Hotel, where he planned the expulsion campaign with [[Sam Watson]], the leader of the Durham miners. Also in attendance was the Labour attaché at the American Embassy in London, [[Joseph Godson|Joe Godson]]. One of the most important post-war events in the Labour Party's internal affairs was overseen by an American spook." <ref> Smear: Wilson and the Secret State, Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Fourth Estate, 1991, p14. </ref>

Gaitskell was a regular guest at conferences of the CIA-sponsored [[Congress for Cultural Freedom]], and its magazine [[Encounter]] was a major outlet for Gaitskellite intellectuals. <ref>Smear: Wilson and the Secret State, Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Fourth Estate, 1991, p16. </ref>

==Affiliations==
*[[Special Operations Executive]]
*Friends of [[Socialist Commentary]] - Treasurer

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 Ramsay and Dorril state that Gaitskell received US support for his attempt to expel [[Aneurin Bevan]] from the party in 1955.
-::"Gaitskell held a series of meetings at the Russell Hotel, where he planned the expulsion campaign with [[Sam Watson]], the leader of the Durham miners. Also in attendance was the Labour attaché at the American Embassy in London, [[Joseph Godson|Joe Godson]]. One of the most important post-war events in the Labour Party's internal affairs was overseen by an American spook." <ref> Smear: Wilson and the Secret State, Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Fourth Estate, 1991, p 14.</ref>
+::"Gaitskell held a series of meetings at the Russell Hotel, where he planned the expulsion campaign with [[Sam Watson]], the leader of the Durham miners. Also in attendance was the Labour attaché at the American Embassy in London, [[Joseph Godson|Joe Godson]]. One of the most important post-war events in the Labour Party's internal affairs was overseen by an American spook." <ref> ''Smear: Wilson and the Secret State'', Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Fourth Estate, 1991, p 14.</ref>
-Gaitskell was a regular guest at conferences of the CIA-sponsored [[Congress for Cultural Freedom]], and its magazine [[Encounter]] was a major outlet for Gaitskellite intellectuals. <ref>ibid, p 16.</ref>
+Gaitskell was a regular guest at conferences of the CIA-sponsored [[Congress for Cultural Freedom]], and its magazine [[Encounter]] was a major outlet for Gaitskellite intellectuals. <ref>''Smear: Wilson and the Secret State'', Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Fourth Estate, 1991, p 16.</ref>
 ==Affiliations==

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	'''Hugh Gaitskell''' (9 April 1906 – 18 January 1963) was the Chancellor of the Exchequer 1950-51 and Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party 1955-1963.		'''Hugh Gaitskell''' (9 April 1906 – 18 January 1963) was the Chancellor of the Exchequer 1950-51 and Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party 1955-1963.
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		+	In 1933, as the recipient of a [[Rockefeller Foundation]] scholarship, he spent a year studying in Vienna.<ref>{{cite web
		+	\|url=http://archives.ucl.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=RefNo=='GAITSKELL'&dsqDb=Catalog
		+	\|title=Gaitskell Papers}}</ref>
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		+	From 1940 to 1942, Gaitskell was Principal Private Secretary to Minister of Economic Warfare, [[Hugh Dalton]].<ref name=whoswho>{{cite book
		+	\|title=Who's Who
		+	\|publisher=A & C Black
		+	\|date=2007}}</ref>

	==Covert US support==		==Covert US support==

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−	'''Hugh Gaitskell''' was the Chancellor of the Exchequer 1950-51 and Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party 1955-1963.	+	'''Hugh Gaitskell''' (9 April 1906 – 18 January 1963) was the Chancellor of the Exchequer 1950-51 and Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party 1955-1963.

	==Covert US support==		==Covert US support==

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		+	[[Category:Old Wykehamists\|Gaitskell, Hugh]][[Category:Labour Party\|Gaitskell, Hugh]]

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 *[[Special Operations Executive]]
 *Friends of [[Socialist Commentary]] - Treasurer
 ==Notes==
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-Chancellor of the Exchequer 1950-51, Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party 1955-1963.
+'''Hugh Gaitskell''' was the Chancellor of the Exchequer 1950-51 and Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party 1955-1963.
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 Ramsay and Dorril state that Gaitskell received US support for his attempt to expel [[Aneurin Bevan]] from the party in 1955.
-::"Gaitskell held a series of meetings at the Russell Hotel, where he planned the expulsion campaign with [[Sam Watson]], the leader of the Durham miners. Also in attendance was the Labour attaché at the American Embassy in London, [[Joseph Godson|Joe Godson]]. One of the most important post-war events in the Labour Party's internal affairs was overseen by an American spook." <ref> Smear: Wilson and the Secret State, Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Fourth Estate, 1991, p14. </ref>
+::"Gaitskell held a series of meetings at the Russell Hotel, where he planned the expulsion campaign with [[Sam Watson]], the leader of the Durham miners. Also in attendance was the Labour attaché at the American Embassy in London, [[Joseph Godson|Joe Godson]]. One of the most important post-war events in the Labour Party's internal affairs was overseen by an American spook." <ref> Smear: Wilson and the Secret State, Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Fourth Estate, 1991, p 14.</ref>
-Gaitskell was a regular guest at conferences of the CIA-sponsored [[Congress for Cultural Freedom]], and its magazine [[Encounter]] was a major outlet for Gaitskellite intellectuals. <ref>Smear: Wilson and the Secret State, Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Fourth Estate, 1991, p16. </ref>
+Gaitskell was a regular guest at conferences of the CIA-sponsored [[Congress for Cultural Freedom]], and its magazine [[Encounter]] was a major outlet for Gaitskellite intellectuals. <ref>ibid, p 16.</ref>
 ==Affiliations==