Show Policy Trouble Red Who Quit Party Sees More Bolting By Bruce W. W Munn 1 LONDON March 19 UP UP- UP Douglas Hyde resigned editor of the Communist Daily Worker predicted predicted pre pre- dieted Friday that large Jarge numbers of British Communists will follow his lis example and bolt the party because of Soviet policy in Europe Hyde announced Thursday night w that he had resigned hI his year 20 membership in m the Communist party party- quit his j job b as news editor of ot the Worker and was taking Instruction in instruction instruction in- in to join the Catholic church He said his wife who has been an active party member for 1 10 years and was a feature writer on the Daily Worker where Hyde worked for eight years was doing the same Couldn't Agree Hyde said he quit because he h could not agree with Soviet foreign policy I have been since the end o othe or of orthe the war Increasingly disturbed by Russia's foreign policy and b by events in eastern Europe he saidI said saltI salt sald I 1 am appalled has happened happened happened hap hap- during recent we weeks ks in Czechoslovakia The way in which It was done is an indication what wha may be expected In Italy France Franc and even Britain should circumstances circumstances circum- circum stances arise He said he thought Catholicism i was the answer to the needs o othe of the world Hyde 38 tall dark and Intense said in an interview at his home at Wimbledon that he thought though communism was on the wane i in Bri Britain I Many 1 Disturbed There is no doubt that that- man many Communist party members ar are deeply disturbed by the Communist Communist policy question in eastern Europe Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope and the party's new attitude de deto to production he said The time is ripe for scale large resignations Mine Is not an isolated isolated iso iso- case IC If I a Communist for 20 years year and an ex executive of the Worker for the past eight years feel this thi way many young people who wh joined during the war years and years an ana a majority of the party arc are young young- wont won't wont won't take so long as I di dito did to make up their minds They be finding It extremely extremely ex ex- ex- ex difficult to see eye to ey eye with the shapers of Communist party policy My action may re result re- re suit sult in a landslide I dont don't think thin the prospects for Communism i in Britain are very bright I think Communism is likelier to come come to this country by way o othe of the red army rather than by th the straight thinking or g good od genera generalship general general- ship of ot party leaders |