Comrade Haldane Is Too Busy to Go on Holiday by Gavan Tredoux

Author:Gavan Tredoux
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781594039843
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2018-03-20T04:00:00+00:00

Writing for the Daily Worker must have been lucrative. Normally such work would pay modestly, if at all, but the paper had substantial subsidies from Stalin, funneled through Eastern Europe and other parts of the Communist empire, where bales of Daily Worker copies were ordered. But what were the “obligations” that Harry reminded JBS of?

A week later the Party was still concerned that Haldane might let it down. Harry Pollitt had a visitor. “Various sums of money mentioned. Later HARRY stated that HALDANE was always changing his mind; then [VISITOR] stated that HALDANE had asked him to find him accommodation in Sydney? and that he had written to his brother in Sydney. [VISITOR] appeared to be worried about sums of money, HARRY told him not to worry.”81

MI5 waited to see if Haldane would present a possibility for cooperation. A “reliable source” was in touch in July 1950.82

HALDANE is clearly going through a period of great mental stress. He is having continuous and troublesome arguments with the Daily Worker; all, of course, due to LYSENKO. HALDANE complains that he is not allowed to put a balanced case. . . . He maintains that some mistakes and some good work has been done by Western biologists, but at the same time some of LYSENKO’s ideas are interesting, as HALDANE points out, “At least he knows one end of a chromosome from another”. HALDANE has also been asked to support western scientists who themselves support LYSENKO. This he finds himself unable to do, as he cannot take the absolutist attitude. HALDANE has not stopped altogether his articles for the Daily Worker, but they will not be once a week, but more probably once every few weeks. He has left the Editorial Board of the Daily Worker.

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