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653. 29 Lago, India’s Prisoner, p. 293. , p. 309. 31 Ibid. , p. 308. Ibid. Thompson, Writing by Candlelight, p. 142. EP Thompson, Beyond the Frontier: The Politics of a Failed Mission, Merlin Press, London, 1997, p. 47. 36 Interviews with historians, ‘Penelope Corfield and EP Thompson’, Institute of Historical Research videowork, 1992. 37 Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the Universe, Harper and Row, New York, 1979, pp. 34–35. ╛╛48–49. ╛╛18. 40 Ibid. 41 Margot Heinemann discusses the hostile attitude of the Third Period Communist Party to intellectuals in ‘The People’s Front and the Intellectuals’, in Britain, Fascism, and the Popular Front, ed.
At Oxford Frank came to realise that Britain’s political establishment and its traditional left-wing parties were unwilling to face down the fascist threat. The Munich crisis of September 1938 stirred debate in Britain about the threat, and briefly pushed the Labour and Liberal parties leftward, but the defeat of AD Lindsay in Oxford’s by-election showed that much of the population still supported Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement. We have seen that Frank’s disillusionment with the miserable Britain of the inter-war years did not stop him from being a patriot.
In the Popular Front era, the Communist Party repudiated its old philistinism, rhetorically at least. Writers, artists and academics were courted assiduously. The Left Review, the Left Book Club and the People’s Theatre were all symbols of the cultural Popular Front that the party fostered, even as it failed to create a political Popular Front. For EP Thompson, literary and scholarly work was just as important, if not more important, than political agitation. All were part of a single project, and they might intersect in the most interesting and useful ways.