Douglas Hyde (2) (1911–1996)
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Douglas Hyde (2) via een alias veranderd in Douglas Arnold Hyde.
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- Officiële naam
- Hyde, Douglas Arnold
- Geboortedatum
- 1911-04-08
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1996-09-19
- Geslacht
- male
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- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Worthing, Sussex, England, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- Kingston, London, England, UK
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- Douglas Hyde came from a Methodist background. After hearing Wal Hannington speak on the executed Sacco and Vanzetti, he joined the International Class War Prisoners’ Association in 1927. Hyde joined the Communist Party at the age of 17 and moved to North Wales while looking for work as a dental technician. Eight years later, he moved to London where he joined the Woking Labour Party in order to secretly recruit members to the Communist Party. He joined the Daily Worker as journalist. After being exempt from military service for medical reasons, Hyde found himself being given editorial responsibilities. When the January 1941 ban on the paper was imposed, Hyde was given the job of setting up an underground press and a distribution system for an illegal newspaper. He gave literally hundreds of Marxist education classes for the Party and was the London District’s “tutor of the year” in 1940. The strains that came with the cold war saw a former friend, fellow Communist and wartime staffer on the Daily Worker, Ludwig Freund, who had become Czechoslovakia’s economy minister, executed for espionage. Hyde’s disillusionment came out in a desire to be inducted into the Catholic church, which he did whilst still working for the Daily Worker. In 1948, a Party member saw him leaving church after receiving mass and Hyde resigned as news editor of the Daily Worker and from the Communist Party. His action was blown up out of all proportion by the media of the day, which had a field day. His 1951 best-seller, “I believed”, became a key ideological weapon against the Communist Party.
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Hyde is clear in saying that the strength of Communism is not in the strength of its ideas. Christianity has something infinitely better to offer the world. But it is “their ability to fire the imagination, create a sense of dedication and send their followers into effective, meaningful action” which causes so great an influence in the world (12). It is without question that a relatively small number of adherents to Marxist philosophy have influenced a great many people and nations over the previous two centuries. The sad reality is that so great a number of Christians feel they have no influence in the world. Rather, Christ’s disciples are the salt of the earth, having a preserving influence on society and helping restrain its evil. Christians are also the light of the earth, bringing the beam of truth into a dark world, with an aim for all people to see the glory of God who is in heaven (Matt. 5:13-16).
The Communists propose that there is a great battle going on all over the world for men’s hearts, minds, and souls. The Christians must be involved in this battle, seeking to win souls unto the best news the world has ever heard. It is much better than a political philosophy. It is better than money or wealth. If Christ is risen, this news is infinitely good. The stakes are high because eternal destinies hang in the balance of this great battle.… (meer)