Douglas Hyde (author)

Douglas Arnold Hyde (8 April 1911,

After his resignation, he converted to Catholicism and published an autobiography, I Believed: The Autobiography of a Former British Communist, detailing his political and religious journey.[9] During this period, his activities received funding from the British Foreign Office's Information Research Department, and I Believed was republished by an IRD front called Ampersand which translated and distributed the book overseas.^[5] The book was written with help from MI6.^[3] Hyde also wrote a book, Dedication and Leadership, about his experiences and the specific tactics of the communists especially in the way that they recruited their members and built them into leaders.^[10] He embarked on international anti-communist lecturing tours, and contributed a long-running column to the Catholic Herald newspaper which was syndicated in several countries. His writings and speeches attracted considerable global attention, I Believed: The Autobiography of a Former British Communist, selling over one million copies in its first ten years of publication.^[11]

Later life and death

Hyde was sympathetic to the emergence of

• I Believed: The Autobiography of a Former British Communist. London, Melbourne, Toronto: William Heinemann. 1950 – via Internet Archive. German translation Anders als ich glaubte, Herder, Freiburg, 1957 (=Herder-Bücherei, No. 1).
• The Answer to Communism, Paternoster Publications, London, 1949.
• Communism from the Inside, Catholic Truth Society, London, 1949.
• Communism and the Home, Catholic Truth Society, London, 1950.
• God's Bandit: The Story of
  Don Orione
  , "Father of the Poor", Peter Davies, London, 1952. Italian (1955), French (1956), German (1957) and Polish (1980) translations.
• Communism at Work, Catholic Truth Society, London, 1953.
• Red Star Versus the Cross: The Pattern of Persecution (with Francis Dufay), Paternoster Publications, London, 1954
• One Front across the World, William Heinemann, London. 1955; Newman Press, Westminster, Maryland, 1956.
• The Mind behind New China, Phoenix House, London, 1956.
• Dedication and Leadership, University of Notre Dame Press, 1956. There is a 1992 edition.
• The Peaceful Assault: The Pattern of Subversion. A Background Book, The Bodley Head, London, 1963.
• The Roots of Guerilla Warfare. A Background Book, The Bodley Head, London, 1965.
• Confrontation in the East. A Background Book, The Bodley Head, London, 1965.
• The Troubled Continent: A New Look at Latin America, Pflaum Press, Dayton, Ohio, 1967.
• Communism Today,
  Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 1972; University of Notre Dame Press
  , 1973.

• Louis F. Budenz
• Hamish Fraser

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