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by DOUGLAS HYDE

happening behind the scenes in the British

Communist Party.

There was Professor J. B. S. Haldane's defection, reported and ambiguously confirmed by him a few days later.

Former News Editor of the Daily Worker, who left the Communist Party in 1948

lust I saw him, he kept a death, headed those who Only a few weeks ago bed in his office in order to quietly worked against Pol- there was the announce- be able to take the frequent litt. On the surface there ment that Mr Phil Piratin, rests the doctor had pre- was

the former M.P.,

appearance of would not scribed.

unity. Behind the scenes again contest the Stepney Pollitt is to continue as rows in plenty. sent for reasons which the party's nominal public party members must have leader, and anyone who Pollitt did not put foot in- found disturbing.

knows the job realises that side the Daily Worker build- Now comes the announce he must be as fit to do that ing for years on end. ment that general secretary as to fight an election.

knew that Rust was wait Mr Harry Pollitt will not

ing for his next deviation in order to step into his position As the party's public leader.

again fight East Rhondria Has enemies

or any other constituency. Willie Gallacher announced also that he would stand again.

congress

Real power

He

open with an analysis of the world situation and then

pro- eeed to apply it to the work of the paper. Discussion would follow.

To intervene

Fit took the right lines Dut

remained silent and the editor "off the line," Dutt would inter- summed up. it nished up vene, state who the policy was to be and the matter would at once be closed.

Dutt's position in the Political Bureau is equally strong. He prefers to remain behind the scenes (he is the deputy chair- man) and

ente to the front only whom he

in and stepped took the place of Pollitt at the time of Pollitt's war devlation.

fairly safe to assume that

It

whatever may be the result of the Cominform "Inquest" on the Sheffield "peace" congresa Dutt's position as the real power, will remain secure.

The departure of Professur J. B. 5. Haldane menns n loss of prestige to the party rather than of a political leader.

not HE has enemies in the party who will not And over the party, like hesitate to use the Sheffield a cloud, hangs the Sheffield fiasco against him. "pence"

fiasco

BUT real power does not lie He was no politician and was Likeable, bluff ex-boiler- with Pollitt. Behind treated purely as a passenger. which, from the Comin- maker, he has made mis him stands the intellectual form's point of view, was takes before. There was "Raji" Palme Dutt. Dutt a monumental failure on the great deviaton in 1939, does not make mistakes. He the part of British leaders, which led to his going out is the man Moscow trusts. of the leadership and re- turning for the time being Lo his boiler-making.

Written off

THE reason given

for Pollitt's departure from the electoral scene is the usual one of health.

greater

Show-piece

was a situation which Hal- There could be no

dane himself cannot have relished. His quarrels with the contrast between any

two party leaders and frequent men. Pollitt is a Marxist threais of resignation were well because he is warm and known in top circles. When Britain declared

Dificult for him to human,

accept, too, must have been the Lysenico war on Hitler, Pollitt sup-

controversy, whlo Impinged ported the declaration. Un-

The party's leaders say directly on his own feld der his leadership the par- quite openly among them- biological studies. To my know- His place is being taken

lodge, papers on the question by slow-moving, doctrinaire ty's central committee met selves of their ex-MP. Wil-

were sent to him from the Daily one Saturday at its King liam Gallacher: "Willie's Idris Cox, which means

Worker at least 12 months be- Street headquarters to draw heart is all right but his fore he was willing to take that the constituency has

up 4 stirring manifesto head isn't." That is truc, a public stand on the question. been written off so far as calling upon the British in a very real sense, of Pol- the party is concerned.

It is doubtful whether people to make every sacri- litt, too.

Cox is in better health than When

GRANT Tollitt in any case.

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It is his warm heart which has made him accept In walked the party's rc- the Marxist revolutionary presentative at Comintern theory. headquarters in Moscow.

newg

that

this

was

the

of

up

Because Haldane had been party's "show-piece" his de- fection was noted outside the party. But it

is impossible to gouge how many of the party's wealthy secret sympathisers are leaving at the moment.

Particularly vulnerable are the more wealthy fellow-travel- | lers, who know that the party does not hesitate publicly to at- which

tack those who fail in their Marxism. responsibilities and, most of all, "enigmas those who change their views.

He read the bravely worded In Dutt's case it was his

coldness manifesto, then broke the very

no brought him to longer a war against Fas- People talk of the

in the Kremlin." To work with Dutt, to see him

cism.

in

It was now an unjust war, action, is to understand which, to quote Dimitrov, how those enigmas work. the Comintern's secretary, the workers must

general

For

As a tact, the international Communist leaders have held the view that the British Com- munist Party should be able to support itself financially and the

domands

ands upon members are

heavy.

him the Marxist there

therefore

money from foreign end "after their own theory, with its doctrine of sources, which was available in class war, civil war and such quantities to the organisera proletarian dictatorship, is of the "peace congress, doce science inhuman but not normally come the way of

the party.. logical.

It is sound psychology to make people saerlilce for the As befits a scientist, he cause to which they have given HAT meant they mast

work for defent is interested only in the allegiance.

to turn results and does not count into civi! war'. He the cost in human misery,

fashion."

Now 'unjust*

THE

and

war

attempt

backed up his announce-

ment with the production of

& aigned postcard from Dimitrov himself.

Policy line

cash or But if ever back of arms looked like preventing the party from being able to exploit for revolutionary

endts

deep economic crisis or milltary de- feat both would undoubtedly be available just as they were in

DUTT'S knowledge of Mar- Spain in 1030 or in Asia today.

xim enables him, unaided,

The central committee under normal circumstances, to

sat down again and drew

decide the political line for the British party. When there are

up a new manifesto, argu- difcuties there are always the

ing that the workers had no interest in this unjust war.

monitored Russian broadcasts available by courtesy of the

Dutt's strength is best re- vented at Daily Worker editorial axecutive meetings, -

-London Express Service)

Everest To Mt Stalin

(Continued from Pare 0)

name for

But they sat down minus Soviot Embassy, from which the Pollitt and J. R. Campbell ne may be got, in addition to the courfers who frequently (now editor of the Daily come and go

world that the local between King Worker), who found it im- Street and the Cominform.

the mountain was Geuri Sankar, It was not until 1903 that the possible to accept the new

Royal Geographical Society line.

really studled the German's drawings and discovered they were not of Everest at all, but The much-pleised editorial of Gauri Sankar-only 23,44 board (from which Professor feet-which stands 30 miles to J. B. S. Haldane resigned more the west of Everest. than a year ago) counts, of As no one could produce a course, for nothing. It is

They did not return from the wilderness until cach had signed a confession ad- mitting his deviations.

A

From that day the other stuffed shirt organisation with better name it was decided to call the mountain after Sir administrative nor leaders have watched Pol. neither

Georgo Evereat. who had been, polley-making powers. litt's and Campbell's overy

head

of the Government of stop, and it is doubtful if I ever Beatrix Lehmann the India Survey, but had retired to

actress, Sean O'Casey the play-England in 1443, seven

yourn Moscow has ever regained wright, and the Dean of Can-before the mountain

was dis- full confidence in. Pollitt in torbury all board members--- covered, particular.

wore found to be olcoring the Now the world's' highest peak pollor of the party's officiat may soon change its name In Britain, too, pro and organ the Combiform would again. anti-Pollitt factions have quick disaat is Bripes India wants to have it called - "ome › lócal Indian or Nepal omarged in the party,

O namo, and the Communists=11 | „Policy is made at the editdeia) [arritakes/hibet, will undoub-

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