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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Q
- Queen Elizabeth, 91
- 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
- Y
- Youth Peace Festival, 124