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...spies, seemed increasingly confused about even graver dangers that they faced in their battle with Communism. This situation was illustrated by the story of three men in the news last week. The men were the U.S.'s Professor Owen Lattimore, Britain's Secretary for War John Strachey and France's Atomic Energy Boss Frédéric Joliot-Curie...
...Etonian & the Plumbers. Unlike Professor Lattimore, Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey, His Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State for War, was for years an open and eloquent Communist spokesman (after a brief partnership with Sir Oswald Mosley, who became a fascist). Ever since his appointment, which drew violent protests from part of the British press (TIME, March 13), U.S. officials have been worrying about Strachey's reliability. Last week, from the Western Defense Ministers' conference at The Hague, came a sensational story: U.S. Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson had told British Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell...
...British press huffed & puffed indignantly about U.S. interference in British affairs, reminded the U.S. that Old Etonian Strachey had publicly broken with the Reds in 1940, had since spoken and written against Russian-style Communism (he once fondly described it as a "movement for better plumbing"). Yet as late as 1944, in a book called Socialism Looks Forward (a careful revision of an earlier work), John Strachey still displayed rhapsodic admiration for Soviet Russia-as well as incredible misinformation about it. In a chapter called "I Have Seen the Future and It Works,"* Strachey wrote: ". . . You can argue forever...
...question whether John Strachey would grab a few top-secret documents from his desk and pass them to the Russian ambassador was irrelevant in 1950; Strachey was probably just as good a "security risk" (in the cops & robbers sense) as anybody else. The important question was whether a man who can write (and apparently still believes) such drivel about Soviet Russia has any business being Britain's War Minister at a time when all the West (including the capitalistic societies which Strachey so openly hates) is fighting for its life. To give Strachey his present...
...week's end, War Minister Strachey seemed content to rest on his own and Downing Street's denials. But Lord Kemsley, an innocent bystander in the whole Strachey business, sued the Tribune for libel in calling the Standard's actions "lower than Kemsley...