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During one evening in 1943 with Robert Barrington-Ward, editor of The Times, the Duke of Devonshire confided that he had ‘still to call your paper publicly the journal of the London School of Economics’. David Bowes-Lyon, a director of the paper, chipped in remarking that The New York Times called it the final edition of The Daily Worker.1 This was not an idiosyncratic view of the leftward drift of The Times during the war — a drift that more often than not was held to be the responsibility of its leader writer and assistant editor, Edward Hallett Carr, The Red Professor of Printing House Square’, as he was later referred to. Nor were such views only held by Americans. Carr’s opponents went to the very top of the British establishment and came to include Winston Churchill, his son Randolph and later the Labour Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin.
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The anecdote is related in Donald McLachan, In The Chair: Barrington-Ward of The Times, 1927–1948 (London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971), p. 206n.
Robert Cole, Britain and the War of Words in Neutral Europe, 1939–45 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990), p. 22.
Political and Economic Planning, Report on the British Press (London: PEP 1938), quoted in R. Cockett, Twilight of Truth: Chamberlain, Appeasement and the Manipulation of the Press (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989), p. 25.
A. Foster, ‘The Times and Appeasement: the Second Phase’, in Walter Laqueur, ed., The Second World War: Essays in Military and Political History (London: Sage, 1982), pp. 275–99.
C. Ponting, 1940: Myth and Reality (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1990), p. 96, identifies the leading advocates as Halifax and R.A. Butler, both close to The Times. Ponting argues that the approach was not abandoned until July 1940.
E.H. Carr, Conditions of Peace (London: Macmillan, 1942), pp. 135–9.
E.H. Carr, The Future of Nations: Independence or Interdependence? (London: Kegan Paul, 1941).
G. Ross, ‘Foreign Office Attitudes to the Soviet Union, 1941–45’, in W. Laqueur, ed., The Second World War: Essays in Military and Political History (London: Sage, 1982), p. 266.
S. Greenwood, ‘Ernest Bevin, France, and “Western Union”: August 1945–February 1946’, European History Quarterly, No. 14, 1984, p. 320.
S. Greenwood, ‘Bevin, the Ruhr and the Division of Germany: August 1945–December 1946’, The Historical Journal, Vol. 29, No. 1, 1986, p. 203.
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Jones, C. (2000). ‘An Active Danger’: E.H. Carr at The Times, 1940–46. In: Cox, M. (eds) E. H. Carr. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-08823-9_4
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