Catalogue description Basil Risbridger DAVIDSON, alias Basil CRAIG: British. A Communist sympathizer. An...
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Reference: | KV 2/3690 |
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Basil Risbridger DAVIDSON, alias Basil CRAIG: British. A Communist sympathizer. An influential and prolific Journalist and author with a particular interest in the developing world, latterly Africa, DAVIDSON was an active member of various Communist-dominated or -influenced organisations, a member of the Writers' Group of the Communist Party and a close associate of leading Party members. Although the bias of his numerous press articles and books was consistently left-wing and anti-Imperialist /Colonial, DAVIDSON was never formally a member of the Party, probably because he could not accept the discipline this would have imposed. Thus, for instance, he took a strongly critical and independent line on the Soviet intervention in Hungary in 1956 |
Note: | Serial 22a: DAVIDSON's war time career |
Date: | 1941 Jul 25 - 1949 May 18 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Former reference in its original department: | PF 603670 VOL 1 |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
Access conditions: | Retained Until 2012 |
Record opening date: | 17 February 2012 |
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