Lucky Lad
Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Harold Evans, 17 December 2009
My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times – An Autobiography
by Harold Evans.
Little, Brown, 515 pp., £25, September 2009,978 1 4087 0203 1 Show More
by Harold Evans.
Little, Brown, 515 pp., £25, September 2009,
“... he didn’t commit. This time there was an unlikely political hero in the form of the elderly Lord Chuter Ede. As home secretary in the Attlee government he had approved the execution, and thus, as Evans says, had less to gain than anyone alive from reopening the case, but he was driven by conscience to help do so. By now Evans had hoved into the view of ... ”