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Never have I read a more typical proCommunist, appeasing Laborite pronouncement on the misunderstandings between ourselves and England than TIME'S [Oct. 12] page-wasted article: "A British View of United States Policy." From actual contact, I know these obnoxiously expressed opinions of leftist Tom Driberg to be far from typically British and even farther from typically Christian...
...have done us all a great service by turning over a page of your magazine to Mr. Tom Driberg, Labor M.P., to pass along his reasons why England mistrusts U.S. foreign policy . . . That a man of Mr. Driberg's views should have been elected to hold office in Great Britain-that, what is more, his statement must be accepted as representative of the views of the large body of his countrymen, tells us more than that the once mighty British character is now effete, senile, and immoral; it tells us that at our peril we rely upon England...
...Government. There is anti-U.S. feeling in both parties, but most of it is generated on the left, among journalists and intellectuals who consider themselves antiCommunist, and many of whom are Christian socialists. To exhibit to Americans the nature and depth of this British view, TIME asked Tom Driberg, Labor M.P. for Maldon and an influential Christian socialist, to say why his kind of Briton dislikes U.S. policy. Driberg's response...
...executive committee were announced. In the seven constituency elections, which are the best barometer of rank & file party sentiment, the Bevanites won six out of seven seats. Bevan himself got the biggest vote (965,000), followed by red-haired Barbara Castle (868,000) and cocky Tom Driberg (744,000). For the first time in 23 years, Attlee's faithful lieutenant, Herbert Morrison, the lifelong trade unionist who became Foreign Secretary, was voted off the executive. He was beaten by Dick Crossman, a facile and erratically brilliant Johnny-come-lately to the Bevanite camp. The uproar in the meeting hall...
Cinemactress Jane Russell "is profoundly, indeed, apocalyptically, interested in the future state of the world-her approach being religious (though not ecclesiastical) rather than political." So, in his weekly newspaper column, announced awed Laborite M.P. Tom Driberg, who had been showing Visitor Russell around Parliament. "She has studied the Bible and its interpretation deeply. In her mother's garden in California, she told me, she and a group of other young people have built a chapel; down there, among the eucalyptus trees, strictly for prayer . . . Crowds of them come in every evening...