LONDON: The Government on Wednesday [Oct 3] announced a huge gold and dollar deficit of 638 million dollars for ...

When British Socialists in 1955 picked Hugh Gaitskell, now 53, to succeed the retiring Clement Attlee as head of the party, they applauded, but they did not cheer. The sad fact was that the longtime ...

Hugh T.N. Gaitskell, leader of Britain's Labor Party, will deliver the Godkin Lectures here next year, Edward M. Mason, Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration announced yesterday.

The fifty-year-old beefy-faced leader of Her Majesty's loyal opposition was talking quietly in the sitting room of the Dana-Palmer House shortly after noon yesterday, when his wife called down from ...

On 3 November 1960, Hugh Gaitskell, the leader of the Labour Party, defeated Harold Wilson in a challenge for the leadership. The ballot, which saw Gaitskell re-elected by 166 votes to Wilson’s 81, ...

On 18 January 1963, the leader of the Labour Party, Hugh Gaitskell, died unexpectedly at the age of 56 at the height of his influence following a short illness. His death, caused by lupus, a rare ...