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Foot was however a critic of the West's handling of the Korean War, an opponent of West German rearmament in the early 1950s and a founder member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Under his editorship, Tribune opposed both the British government's Suez adventure and the Soviet crushing of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956.

In this period he made regular television appearances on the current affairs programmes In The News ( BBC ) and subsequently Free Speech ( ITV ).

" There was certainly nothing wrong with his television technique in those days ", reflected Anthony Howard shortly after Foot's death.