Last Of The Cold War Spies (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
News of the just-turned 21-year-old’s death took three weeks to reach communist party headquarters in England via the communist network. His close friend Straight had the difficult task of informing relatives and other companions. The Cambridge Review said his death was “a bitter loss to English thought as well as to the undergraduates and working-class of England.” The literary publication Granta spoke of his heroism and noted his demise as “the deepest experience of our lives.” A communist party member from London more prosaically referred to Cornford as “the finest type of middle-class comrade.” The combined grief and adulation created Cornford as a martyr, which was most useful to the communist cause. Straight found work for Cornford’s wife at Dartington and a home for his son James with the Ramsdens, with whom he had worked on his first campaign a few months earlier at nearby Totnes. Life went on at Cambridge. Straight still had his duties. He was secretary of the Apostles, whose active membership had shrunk.
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