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...Lord Stanley of Alderley, 6th Baron Sheffield of Roscommon, Baron Eddisbury of Winnington and a Baronet, served in a trawler, an ex-U.S. destroyer, a gunboat, during World War II, never in a corvette. For a comparison of corvettes, see cuts...
...arrangements were pure Mao dynasty. All 19 excursionists were carefully chosen on the basis of docility: reporters from Pravda, Tass, Poland's Trybuna Ludu, North Korean news agencies, Britain's Red Sheep Alan Winnington (the London Daily Worker), along with Author Anna Louise Strong, doyenne of U.S. Red-liners, who was accused by the Kremlin in 1949 of working against Communism-an error for which Moscow later abjectly apologized. (For the Tibetan junket an oxygen tent was taken along for 74-year-old Journalist Strong, but the heady political climate of captive Tibet made it unnecessary...
...Korea Correspondent Alan Winning-ton, 44, of the Communist London Daily Worker, insisted that in covering the war from the Chinese side he was just like any other newsman on an assignment. But Winnington's actions made this claim absurd. He was one of the Communists used by the Chinese Reds to help squeeze "confessions" out of prisoners, according to such returned prisoners as U.S. Air Force Ace Colonel Walker M. Mahurin ('TIME, Sept. 21). The Communists, charged Colonel Mahurin, "continued to press me for several days, even going so far as to have a British newspaperman, Alan...
Last week Winnington's status finally got official recognition from the British Foreign Office. When he applied at the British consulate in Peking for a renewal of his passport so that he could cover the Geneva Far Eastern Conference (see FOREIGN NEWS), he was summarily turned down. The consulate informed him that he could only get a "traveler's permit" that would allow him to return to Brit ain, but no place else. It was the first such turndown for a Communist, although people such as Britain's Fascist Oswald Mosley have also been turned down. Winnington...
Communist Correspondents Alan Winnington and Wilfred Burchett, serving as stage managers, did their best to liven the proceedings: "Hi. Al. Hello, Dick, how's everything?" But as prisoner after prisoner stood before the TV and newsreel came:as. each repeated the same, dull set piece: "We believe that our greatest task is to keep the peace and win democracy for our people, but if we return, our voices would be silenced. That is why we are here...