Wilson, JH

...HTN Gaitskell, the party leader, supported by the block votes of the major unions, fought off several challenges over welfare and rearmament from A. Bevan's faction, which was based in local branches, but his attempt to abolish the socialist platform (Article 4) in order to reform the party's character as a class party was defeated by opposition from the unions. James Harold Wilson (1916-1995), who became the new party leader in 1963, put forward a vision of modernization that emphasized new industrial technology, and in 1964, he returned the Labour Party to power. He promised to raise welfare standards in a high-growth economy with the participation of the state, and positioned himself as the party of technocrats to manage it, but in the low-growth economy that he inherited, he was hit by a foreign currency crisis, switched to a deflationary policy, and was defeated in the general election in 1970. ...

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…大組合のブロック票に支持された党首H.T.N.ゲーツケルは，地方支部に基盤をもつA.ベバン派からの，福祉と再軍備をめぐる数度の挑戦を退けたが，他方，階級政党としての党の体質を改めるため社会主義綱領(第4条)を廃棄しようとした彼の試みは組合の反対で敗れた。63年新党首に就任したウィルソンJames Harold Wilson(1916‐95)は新産業技術重視の近代化ビジョンを掲げ，64年，労働党を政権に復帰させた。国家の参加する高度成長経済の中で福祉水準の引上げを約束し，これを管理するテクノクラートの党としてみずからを位置づけたが，継承した低成長経済の中で外貨危機に見舞われ，デフレ政策に転じ，70年の総選挙で敗退した。…

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