The Day the Party Had to Stop

Abstract

I began 1956, as I had begun every year since 1944, as a journalist on the Daily Worker. They were enjoyable and fruitful years, most of which I spent as Parliamentary Correspondent, but I also did many other jobs-foreign editor, reporter, feature writer, even war correspondent in Greece (but only after the war was over, as the Daily worker was denied accreditation by the War Office while it lasted). For most of 1956 I was features editor, responsible among other things for the Readers' Forum. At the end of October I went back to the House of Commons to report the Suez debates when Peter Fryer, my successor in the press gallery, was sent to Budapest to cover the Hungarian uprising. I was a member of the editorial committee which met twice a day to discuss the content of the paper.