[ John Reid, Defence Secretary and Former Communist Party Member... ]

Evening Standard - London › February 21, 2006

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JOHN Reid, Defence Secretary and former Communist party member, continues to give Rightwing interviews while slipping in unattributed quotes from Leftwing heroes. Recently he used a phrase by the Italian Marxist Gramsci: "Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will."

Yesterday, while defending Guantanamo Bay on Sunday AM, he used Nye Bevan's line: "Why look in the crystal ball when you can read the book?"

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