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.

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, ...

Hugh Gaitskell asked the United States to cooperate in forming a resolute U.N. policy on a Suez settlement in his final Godkin Lecture last night. He insisted that the United States should support an ...

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 ...