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.

To Whom It May Concern: Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records: Any and all materials held on Hugh Gaitskell. Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell CBE (9 April 1906 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

In any settlement of the Suez Canal crisis, the Western Powers “must not forget the right of Israel and Israeli shipping,” Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the British Labor Party in Parliament, today urged ...