Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Controlled Schizoid. For 2½ years he worked in the U.S. (partly at Los Alamos), returned to Britain in 1946 to be head of the theoretical physics department at the Harwell Atomic Energy Research Establishment, was rated as the No. 3 atomic scientist in Britain. Then in 1950 British intelligence belatedly closed in. After a brilliantly conducted interrogation that played on his intellectual vanity. Traitor Fuchs seemed relieved to tell...
...admitted that he had passed on atomic secrets to Soviet agents in New York. Los Alamos and London (Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed in the U.S. for treason, were members of the Fuchs spy ring). He had not felt that he was betraying his adopted country or his many British and U.S. friends, said Fuchs, because he was able to keep his Communist and democratic loyalties "in two separate compartments" by a process he described as "controlled schizophrenia...
Tried and found guilty of treason, Fuchs was stripped of his British citizenship and sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment. In prison, where he picked up pin money as a librarian, Fuchs was said to have incurred doubts about Communism. Last week the tall emerald-green gates of Wakefield Prison in northern England swung wide to permit the departure of a black Morris sedan. In the rear seat, together with a police officer and a picnic hamper, sat Klaus Fuchs, at 48 a scrawny, balding man who blinked through thick-lensed, steel-rimmed prison glasses, set free after serving...
Since Fuchs was no longer a subject, the British argue that they had no option but to let him go where he wanted: to East Germany to rejoin his 84-year-old father, who is now professor emeritus of the Red-run University of Leipzig. After refusing to talk to newsmen in Britain, on board his plane or when he landed in East Berlin, Klaus Fuchs finally gave an interview to a London reporter who tracked him down at a vacation cottage near East Germany's Lake Wandlitz. Had he been decently treated in prison? "Yes." Was he still...
...places, the public reading room of Khartoum's Sudanese Cultural Center that "nobody believes there has been a revolution in this country, not even we, the members of the Supreme Council." Others said that the plotters advocated a purge of the army, with its "corruption inherited from the British," and a return to semicivilian government...