![]() ![]() For a time he was a convinced Bevanite and an associate of Aneurin Bevan himself. Johnson adopted a left-wing political outlook during this period as he witnessed, in May 1952, the police response to a riot in Paris, the "ferocity I would not have believed had I not seen it with my own eyes." Subsequently, he also served as the New Statesman's Paris correspondent. ![]() Johnson's military record helped the Paris periodical Realités hire him, where he was assistant editor (1952-55). Here he saw the "grim misery and cruelty of the Franco regime". Taylor.Īfter graduating with a second-class honours degree, Johnson performed his national service in the Army, joining the King's Royal Rifle Corps and then the Royal Army Educational Corps where he was commissioned as a Captain (acting) based mainly in Gibraltar. One of his tutors at Oxford was historian A. At Stonyhurst Johnson received an education grounded in the Jesuit method, which he preferred over the more secularized curriculum of Oxford. ![]()
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