The right of free speech still existed in Parliament last week, and British radicals exercised it to the point of violent sweating.
The most radical man in Parliament is not Laborite Emanuel Shinwell, the chief voice of those few Labor Party members who have refused to march along with the Churchill Conservative-Labor coalition Government. Nor is it Parliament's only Communist, moon-faced Willie Gallacher, who is delighted to find Winston Churchill marching along with Joseph Stalin.
Well to the left of both are the three Independent Labor Party members, most notable of whom is broguish John ("Jock") McGovern, 54, a bull-tempered Scottish...
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