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I'm on home territory here, Killy. I've read it, both volumes, on numerous occasions. I've read all Foot's books, I've got most of them signed on my shelves. It would be a stretch to say that I 'knew' him though as I've said on here before I did correspond with him on and off throughout my teenage years. I was invited up to tea with him in The Commons when I was thirteen or so. That was marvelous and very kind of him.
As regards Bevan, yes Foot was a great admirer. They first met in 1937 and hit it off immediately. Foot was always predisposed toward a fondness for mavericks and Bevan was certainly one. For his part Bevan was clearly struck not just with the depth and breadth of Foot's intellectualism but with his passion and commitment too. " The young knight-errant" was how Bevan described Foot in the late '30s and it was in this spirit that he afforded Foot an introduction to Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook.
Now that quote you attribute..."I loved him, not merely as a friend, but as a second father" was, as Warwick correctly pointed out, Foot's tribute to Aitken NOT Bevan. It features in every biography, in every obituary. If you're looking for glowing references to Bevan you can find plenty, but that isn't one of them, Killy.
I once told Foot that he was by far a superior politician to Bevan, to my young way of thinking. "Don't be so bloody daft!" he told me. I still think that's undeniable. In the run-up to war Bevan drew far closer to the communists than a man of conscience could brook. Foot did not. Bevan's career holds a litany of positional flip-flops and a record of walking away when he couldn't have his way, Foot's does not. Foot had an adherence to principle and a constancy to purpose practically unrivaled in the twentieth century, inconceivable in the twenty first.
In 1942 Michael Foot spoke in London on the subject of press freedom in wartime, it was during his tenure as editor of The Evening Standard. View him here between 6:36 - 9:06 and see the man in essence. It's a genuine tour-de-force. You'll not see its like again any time soon.
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An idea isn't responsible for those who believe in it.
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Corbyn to take part tonight on 13:03 - Jun 2 with 2131 views
I've read the book (books, actually - and most of his essays), however, it's fairly obvious you haven't...you colossal fûcking dolt.
Loh's erudite* reply may be a tad long for your limited attention span so here's the relevant part for you -
Now that quote you attribute..."I loved him, not merely as a friend, but as a second father" was, as Warwick correctly pointed out, Foot's tribute to Aitken NOT Bevan. It features in every biography, in every obituary. If you're looking for glowing references to Bevan you can find plenty, but that isn't one of them, Killy.
Got it now, fûckwit?
*it's not a brand of glue, Killy.
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Corbyn to take part tonight on 21:45 - Jun 2 with 2049 views
An excellent performance by Corbyn I thought, at once informed, relaxed and reasonable. With the latter 2 points a more or less radical departure from the norm, that I strongly suspect are the result of serious coaching from PR consultants, pollsters, spin doctors, etc.
In other words the class traitors and Blairite counter-revolutionaries hitherto much reviled and completely ostracised by JC's acolytes. The leadership may actually have grown up; thank fcuk for tha!t
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