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  1. Series
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraphs
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. List of abbreviations
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. British McCarthyism
  11. 2. Labour Party: the enemy within and without
  12. 3. The Conservatives and the red menace
  13. 4. Pressure groups: agents of influence
  14. 5. The trade union movement: a fifth column?
  15. Conclusion
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index

Index

  • A
  • Adenauer, Konrad, 164, 173
  • America. See United States
  • American Federation of Labor (AFL), 202–4
  • Anglican Church, 9, 29, 32–7, 47–8, 169–70, 235
  • anti-socialism, 8, 28, 38, 49, 109–16, 138, 150, 173, 177
  • Attlee, Clement, 58, 69–70, 79, 92, 110–12, 115, 120, 137, 191, 214–15, 236, 239
  • atomic weapons, 78
  • criticism of, 28, 39, 66, 82,
  • deputy leader, 61–2, 64
  • foreign policy, 63, 71, 74
  • government, 13, 60, 108–9, 140, 190, 225, 238
  • House of Commons, 38, 43, 57, 81, 85, 212
  • Marxism, 7–8
  • red-baiting, 59
  • relationship with MI5, 65–6, 67–8, 82–3, 91, 136, 206, 208, 210, 212, 224
  • religion, 47
  • Second World War, 63
  • Trade Unions Congress, 201, 205–6
  • B
  • Baker White, John, 41, 173–4
  • Beamish, Tufton, 72, 160, 175
  • Beaverbrook, Lord, 40–43, 80, 165
  • Bellenger, Frederick, 67–8
  • Benn, Anthony, 31, 226
  • Bevan, Aneurin ‘Nye’, 64, 72, 206, 225, 235
  • Bevanites, 71
  • Bevin, Ernest, 66, 98, 139, 193, 238
  • Christopher Mayhew, 94, 98, 172
  • foreign secretary, 8, 26, 61, 64, 70–71, 74, 91, 136
  • Transport and General Workers Union, 61, 62–3
  • Bing, Geoffrey, 39, 67–8
  • Blake, George, 140
  • Blunt, Anthony, 129, 140
  • Bobrinskoy, Alexis, 44–5
  • Boy Scouts, 49
  • Braddock, Elizabeth, 68, 72
  • British Broadcasting Company (BBC), 10, 20, 24, 29, 32, 37, 44–6, 48, 95, 138, 172, 208
  • British Legion, 29, 116–17
  • British Union of Fascists, 153
  • Brook, Norman, 86, 88, 93–4, 96, 108, 120, 215, 222
  • Brooman-White, Richard, 126, 131
  • Brown, Gordon, 177
  • Buchman, Frank, 162–9, 172–3, 179–80
  • Burgess, Guy, 15, 126, 127, 128, 129, 133–5, 172, 236
  • debate and investigation over disappearance, 74–5, 88, 107–8, 119–20, 121, 125–6, 130, 132, 136–7
  • C
  • Cairncross, John, 140
  • Cambridge University, 126, 129, 133
  • Campaign for Limitation of Secret Police Powers, 123, 235
  • Canada, 25–6, 77–8, 88, 208, 210
  • Catholic Church, 9, 26, 33–6, 47, 170, 205–6
  • Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 97, 128, 148–9, 157–9, 180
  • Chapman-Walker, Mark, 113–14
  • China, 24–5, 27, 86, 162
  • Church of England. See Anglican Church
  • Churchill, Winston, 7–8, 20, 25, 38, 69, 111, 139–41, 235
  • BBC, 45–6
  • counterintelligence, 127
  • government, 89, 108, 190–2, 216–17, 219, 238
  • red-baiting, 109–10, 113
  • religion, 47–8
  • vetting, 75–7, 89, 98, 120
  • Colville, John, 21, 127
  • Common Cause, 147–50, 155–61, 178–80, 207, 222, 239
  • Common Wealth Party, 155–6
  • Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), 71, 91, 93, 111, 194, 196, 212
  • interwar period, 11–12, 40, 78
  • labelled a threat, 7, 67, 80–81, 97, 112, 122, 156, 174, 212, 234
  • membership in, 41, 75, 79, 84, 90, 123, 129, 177, 211
  • MI5, 2–3, 216, 218, 220–1
  • squatter’s movement, 57–9
  • trade unions, 194, 196–7, 198–9, 201, 205, 210, 216
  • Congress of Cultural Freedom (CCF), 148–9, 159
  • Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 202, 204
  • Conquest, Robert, 94, 95
  • Cooper, Duff, 75, 125, 136
  • Cope, Gilbert, 33
  • Cordeaux, John, 134–5
  • Craigavon, Lord, 45
  • Crisp, Dorothy, 150–3
  • Crosland, Anthony, 8
  • Crossman, Richard, 7, 66, 137
  • D
  • Daily Worker, 1, 30–31, 34, 63, 73, 174
  • Dalton, Hugh, 70
  • Davies, Clement, 209
  • Deakin, Arthur, 169, 189, 199, 203–4, 213–15, 217–18, 220, 224
  • de Courcy, Kenneth, 20, 25–8, 42, 49
  • Driberg, Tom, 168–9, 170–73
  • Dukes, Paul, 111
  • Dutt, R. Palme, 24
  • E
  • Economic League, 38, 41, 148–50, 158, 173–80, 210, 222
  • Ede, James Chuter, 58, 92, 176–7, 210, 214–15
  • Eden, Anthony, 27, 69, 109, 121, 131, 151, 153–5, 209, 225
  • compared to Churchill, 138–40
  • foreign secretary, 121
  • government, 108–9, 129, 190, 219, 238
  • opinion of Socialism, 113
  • Eisenhower, Dwight, 120, 154
  • Eliot, T.S., 37
  • F
  • fascism, 6, 7, 13, 23, 63, 65, 79, 81, 112, 153, 161
  • Feather, Victor ‘Vic’, 200–201, 207, 224
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 30, 87, 120, 141, 163
  • Fisher, Geoffrey, 9, 32–7, 47, 169–70
  • France, 23, 35, 60, 129, 195, 223
  • Franco, Francisco, 26, 36, 195
  • Fuchs, Klaus, 87–8, 138, 164, 236
  • G
  • Gaitskell, Hugh, 70, 72
  • Gaitskellites, 71
  • Gallacher, William ‘Willie’, 39, 65, 71, 81, 206, 213
  • General Election
  • 1924, 11
  • 1945, 14, 59, 109–10, 147, 237
  • 1950, 14, 28, 40, 71, 94, 113–16, 118–19, 138
  • 1951, 28, 45, 89, 116, 138, 216
  • 1955, 72
  • 1964, 73
  • Germany, 60, 63, 124, 158, 164
  • Berlin, 62, 73, 128
  • Nazi, 21–3, 38, 63, 115, 163–4
  • Gouzenko, Igor, 74, 77–8
  • Gunn, Herbert, 41, 42
  • H
  • Hayek, Friedrich, 38, 110
  • Hiss, Alger, 125, 140
  • Hitler, Adolf, 20, 21, 22, 26, 34, 38, 39
  • HMS Amethyst, 24, 48
  • Hoare, Robert, 176–7, 210
  • Hogg, Quintin, 154, 172–3
  • Hollis, Roger, 77, 83, 102n109, 140, 175
  • Home Guard, 140
  • homosexuality, 120–2
  • Horner, Arthur, 193–6, 224
  • House Un-American Activities Committee (HUCA), 39, 57, 84, 90, 126, 234, 238
  • Housewives’ League, 148, 150–3, 178
  • Howard, Peter, 165–6, 171–3, 178–80
  • Hutchinson, Lester, 68, 71, 114
  • Hyde, Douglas, 34, 41, 73
  • I
  • Information Research Department (IRD), 37, 92, 94–8, 112, 156, 158, 160–1, 171, 176–7, 180–1, 190, 200, 207, 218
  • Intelligence Digest, 25
  • International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), 169, 171
  • Isaacs, George, 39, 206–9, 211–12, 214–15, 217
  • Italy, 69, 85, 223
  • J
  • Jacob, Ian, 37
  • John Birch Society, 154
  • John Lewis Partnership, 49
  • Johnson, Hewlett, 32–3, 39, 48
  • Johnson, Louis, 27, 42–3
  • K
  • Kell, Vernon, 12
  • Knight, Maxwell, 68, 173
  • Korean War, 27, 35, 44, 92, 107–8, 175, 212–13
  • L
  • League of Empire Loyalists, 148, 153–5, 178
  • Liddell, Guy, 82, 83, 84, 91, 140, 177, 212, 220
  • concerns over Soviet threat, 86, 87
  • diaries, 16n5, 223
  • hunt for communists in Labour Party, 65, 66, 67–9
  • investigations into strikes, 193–4, 210, 212–14
  • Kim Philby, 12–19, 136
  • opinion of Waldron Smithers, 38
  • relationships with Anthony Blunt and Guy Burgess, 129
  • Lipton, Marcus, 126, 127, 128, 129–30, 131, 135, 137
  • Listeners’ Association, 45
  • M
  • MacArthur, Douglas, 179
  • MacDonald, Ramsay, 7, 11
  • Maclean, Donald, 15, 119, 126, 127, 129, 132–3, 172, 236
  • debate and investigation over disappearance, 74–5, 88, 107–8, 119–20, 121, 125–6, 130, 132, 136–7
  • Macmillan, Harold, 15, 37, 111, 113, 126–8, 130–5, 138, 140, 144n89, 155, 219
  • Makins, Roger, 78
  • Marshall Plan, 35, 193, 197, 203, 210
  • Marx, Karl, 7–8, 59–60, 163
  • Maxse, Marjorie, 111, 116–17, 118, 119, 167, 176
  • Maxwell Fyfe, David, 119, 120, 123–4, 136, 137–8, 139, 150, 152, 172–3, 216
  • Mayhew, Christopher, 70, 94, 95, 96, 98, 112, 158, 171–3, 178, 180–1, 207
  • McCarran Act, 90
  • McCarthy, Joseph, 29–30, 49, 57, 107, 140, 159, 237–8
  • comparisons to, 1, 20, 29–30, 47, 48–9, 58, 123, 211, 234–5
  • McCarthyism, 3–4, 47, 108, 159, 177, 179, 235–6
  • McGovern, John, 36, 72–3, 161–2, 168, 171, 180
  • McMahon Act (1947), 78, 88
  • Menzies, Stewart, 128–9
  • MI5. See Security Service
  • MI6. See Secret Intelligence Service
  • Mitchell, Graham, 129, 140, 210
  • ‘mole’ hunt, 140
  • Monckton, Walter, 217
  • Montgomery, Bernard, 108
  • Moral Rearmament, 48, 72–3, 147–50, 161–73, 178–81, 239
  • Morrison, Herbert, 39, 58, 61, 69–70, 72, 84–5, 110, 137, 201, 215
  • attacks on Soviet Union, 62
  • BBC, 45
  • election campaigning, 110, 111, 114, 115–16
  • foreign secretary, 71, 127, 132, 207
  • home secretary, 63–4, 75, 76
  • House of Commons, 57, 98, 132, 133–4
  • nationalisation, 60
  • religion, 47
  • N
  • National Coal Board (NCB), 193–4
  • National Front, 155
  • National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), 191, 193–6
  • NATO, 42, 71, 74, 91
  • Newsam, Frank, 176, 210
  • New York Times, 25, 42, 85, 192–3
  • Nicolson, Harold, 21, 64
  • Nixon, Richard, 140
  • Noel-Baker, Philip, 208
  • Northern Ireland, 35, 45, 68, 84
  • Belfast, 36, 166
  • Londonderry, 35
  • Nunn May, Anthony, 77–9, 80, 236
  • Nutting, Anthony, 160
  • O
  • Oates, Titus, 46, 235
  • Official Secrets Act, 78, 120, 172
  • Orwell, George, 62, 65, 95, 99n27, 196
  • Orwell’s List, 95
  • P
  • Petrov, Vladimir, 127
  • Philby, Kim, 15, 124–33, 135–8, 140
  • Phillips, Morgan, 8, 66–8, 70, 72–3, 139, 159, 197, 205
  • Piratin, Phillip, 65, 71
  • Platts-Mills, John, 68–71, 81, 114
  • Pollitt, Harry, 63, 66, 85, 193
  • Pontecorvo, Bruno, 88, 236
  • populism, 2, 130, 140, 146n142, 237
  • Q
  • Queen Elizabeth, 91
  • R
  • red scare. See United States
  • Reilly, Patrick, 131, 138
  • revolution
  • American, 179
  • Chinese, 86
  • fear of in Britain, 10, 12, 63, 189, 224
  • Russian, 10, 149, 233
  • Rothschild, Lord, 140
  • S
  • sabotage, 64, 69, 179, 189, 191, 197, 203, 212–15, 219
  • Scotland, 37, 72, 118, 158, 217
  • Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), 2, 3, 11–12, 64, 111, 128, 131, 137, 156, 163
  • membership in, 116, 119, 126, 135
  • Security Service (MI5), 2, 3, 73, 79, 82–3, 91, 206–7, 210, 212
  • BBC, 45–6
  • Economic League, 149, 173–5, 177
  • Herbert Morrison, 71, 85
  • interwar period, 11–12
  • investigations, 45–6, 48, 58, 67–8, 217–18, 236
  • Kenneth de Courcy, 25, 27
  • Kim Philby, 128, 131, 138
  • Labour Party, 64–5
  • Moral Rearmament, 163–4, 166–7, 170
  • surveillance, 77, 80, 87, 129
  • trade unions, 191, 193, 214, 216, 220–5, 233
  • vetting, 75, 76–7, 83–4, 86, 88–9, 120–1
  • Winston Churchill, 127
  • Shawcross, Hartley, 41, 58, 210, 215
  • Shinwell, Emanuel ‘Manny’, 42–3, 47, 151
  • Sillitoe, Percy, 84, 136, 166, 216, 218
  • Smith, C.A., 155–6, 158
  • Smith, Walter Bedell, 128, 157, 159, 160
  • Smithers, Waldron, 13–14, 19–20, 37–49, 57–9, 69, 80, 85, 97–8, 151, 175, 234, 238
  • social democracy, 8, 49, 61, 70, 113–15, 176, 224–5
  • Soviet All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, 202
  • Spain, 36, 62
  • Special Branch, 15, 58, 65, 88, 190, 210, 215, 222
  • Springhall, Douglas Frank, 75–6, 79
  • Stalin, Joseph, 12, 39–40, 62–3, 94, 111, 162
  • Stansgate, Lord, 31–2, 49
  • Strachey, John, 20, 40–4, 47–8, 64, 80, 82, 151, 235
  • strikes
  • Atlantic Fleet (1931), 11
  • Austin Motor Works (1953), 217
  • dockworkers, 96, 208–11, 214, 215–16, 217–18, 223, 226
  • General Strike (1926), 11, 12, 190
  • Glasgow (1919), 10
  • Grimethorpe (1947), 191–7
  • London gas workers (1950), 215
  • Savoy Hotel (1947), 91
  • Suez Crisis, 154, 233
  • T
  • Tacitus, 21
  • Tewson, Vincent, 198–200, 213, 223
  • Thatcher, Margaret, 7, 97
  • Tomney, Frank, 134
  • Trade Unions Congress (TUC), 66, 74, 82–3, 95, 191, 196–204, 206–7, 213, 216, 220, 223–4
  • Transport and General Workers’ Union (TGWU), 61, 62–3, 169, 191, 199, 211, 213, 215, 224
  • treason, 90, 107, 125, 131, 135, 138, 140, 225
  • Truman, Harry, 78, 107, 163, 179
  • U
  • UFOs, 127
  • United States
  • Anglo-American relations, 41–2, 75, 128, 154, 192–3
  • atomic weapons, 25, 78, 86–8, 141
  • Common Cause, 156–9, 178–9, 180
  • compared to Britain, 2–4, 9, 57, 84, 97, 205
  • influence on Britain, 1, 10, 13, 88, 119–22, 127, 149, 195, 202–3, 239
  • Moral Rearmament, 168, 178–9, 180
  • pro-American feeling in Britain, 34–5, 39
  • red scare 2–4, 9, 19, 49, 97, 158–9, 179, 235–8
  • Unity Theatre, 85
  • University of London, 48
  • V
  • Vansittart, Lord, 20–37, 43, 44–5, 46–8, 49, 58, 121, 180, 235, 238
  • Vansittartism, 20–3, 28, 31, 46–7, 49
  • Venona, 87
  • W
  • Waitrose, 49
  • White, Dick, 127, 131, 220
  • Wilson, Harold, 96, 140, 226
  • Wilson, Woodrow, 10
  • Winnifrith, John, 87–8
  • World Federations of Trade Unions (WFTU), 202–4
  • World Peace Council (WPC), 91–2, 123
  • Y
  • Youth Peace Festival, 124
  • Z
  • Zilliacus, Konni, 24, 68, 70–1
  • Zinoviev Letter, 11–12, 64, 136, 210
  • Zuckerman, Solomon ‘Solly’, 83–4

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