Word: strachey
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...Michael Foot, 37, wiry, wily Laborite M.P., co-editor of the Socialist weekly Tribune (circ. 20,000) and onetime acting editor of Lord Beaverbrook's Tory London Evening Standard. What had roused Foot's wrath was the way the Standard (circ. 871,000) had handled John Strachey's appointment as Secretary of State for War (TIME, March...
...Strachey's promotion was announced the same day Communist Spy Klaus Fuchs was convicted. The Standard linked the two stories together in one scare headline: FUCHS AND STRACHEY: A GREAT NEW CRISIS. WAR MINISTER HAS NEVER DISAVOWED COMMUNISM. The Standard's "proofs" were Strachey quotations, from twelve to 18 years old, expressing a sympathy for Russian Communism that Strachey had long since repudiated. "Spreading what [Beaverbrook & Co.] knew to be a lie," said the Tribune, was the kind of journalism that was "lower than [Lord] Kemsley" (the Tory publisher of four London Sunday papers, one London daily...
This was antiCommunist, all right-but Strachey's premises were rather special. A lot of "mature" Britons might feel uneasy with a War Minister who thought that the main trouble with Russia was the immaturity of the Russian people...
...Strachey's own defense concluded with a peculiar quotation from an article by him last month in the London Tribune. He had written: "All the nightmare aspects of the Soviet regime really stem from the gigantic error of having maintained, by brute force, far too highly developed an economy among a population the relative maturity of which was totally inadequate to sustain...
...Strachey's visits to the U.S. were not without difficulty. In 1933 he was arrested and charged with entering the U.S. under false pretenses; i.e., he had said he was not in favor of violently overthrowing the government. These charges were dropped, but when Strachey arrived in New York again in 1938, he was held at Ellis Island for two weeks because his visa had been canceled while he was en route. The U.S. consul general in London had canceled the visa because he was "convinced that [Strachey] is a member ... of the executive committee of the British Communist...