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THIS MAY BE DYNAMITE! shouted the headline in Britain's trade weekly World's Press News. Beneath it was a scandal-scented story: the press was paying members of the House of Commons for parliamentary and party "leaks." The accusation came from fat, florid Garry Allighan, a Labor M.P. and ex-Fleet Streeter. Some M.P.s, Allighan charged, got cash, some got publicity, some were merely "lubricated into loquacity" around the House...
...news editor of the London Mirror, Allighan said he had personally okayed payments to several M.P.s, including one now risen to the Cabinet. As Allighan told it, Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard had been "highly enterprising" about developing leaks, and the most successful...
...London papers employ paid M.P. contributors, some of whom sign their stuff. (Unlike the U.S. Congress, Parliament by custom permits barrister members to represent clients with political interests; every major union has M.P. officials on its payroll, and Tories and Laborites alike are on well-paying company directorates.) But Allighan's charges about bought-&-paid-for leaks were something different, and highly explosive...
...fuse. After sifting evidence for five weeks, the committee found only two leaking offenders. One had been paid ?5 a week by Editor Guy Schofield of Lord Rothermere's Evening News; Schofield refused to tell the name. The other was garrulous Garry Allighan himself. He had admitted getting ?30 a week for passing along confidential information to the "enterprising" Evening Standard...
...party organizers. Wrote a sergeant from Germany: "This demob news shook the boys more than anything." Embittered Tommies, watching boatloads of G.I.s heading home each week, took to advertising in their home papers for jobs. The Government was likened to Ethelred the Unready (see cut). Stocky, quick-firing Garry Allighan, Labor M.P. for the blitzed Gravesend dock area, staggered out from under 2,000 demobilization letters a day to cry: "You must solve this-or have revolution. It's serious...