Title Writer Mod Date & Time St PARTITION: tape 5 255MODEM 255MODEM Sep 07 09:35 R* TAPE 5 ALYS FAIZ interviewed at her home in Model Town, Lahore on 11 October 1995 [for biographical note and details of an earlier interview, see tape 2] Side A 8 > story of how became involved in CP; parents conservative and business people; took party in May Day processions, joined CP, went to London party HQ - and became a member from Clerknewell 'and of course there were a lot of Indians there* - this was 1936 48 - Indians in party - Iqbal Singh and Mulkraj Anand, really a writers' batch; 'my friendship with the Indians, and my sister's, expanded, and we went to their mtgs and the Prog Writers' Assn was formed ... in London ... and so many Indians were at Cambridge; recollections of blackshirts 75 - 'always certain ... that the world was wrong, and if one chose a pol path it sh be to put things right ... I wanted to go to Spain but my parents sd no' cos Cornford has just died there 104 - Inprecor paper, 'I was chose to see that some of the copies got to India'; working for W.H. Smith's, and used to send the paper in Smith's envelopes ...'; discovered and investigated 'and they discovered that it was my typewriter, and so my boss called me ... and sd ... did I do this, I sd yes ... I work for them cos I believe in them'; met Acland - kept job with a warning 154 - job of getting papers to India then passed on to somebody else - Dutt and Krishna Menon always around 164 - worked for Krishna Menon at the India League on the Strand, 'he used to get nice girls to come and type his envelopes for the material he was sending out, and he used to talk to us about the CP in India; it was interesting’ 172 - Menon was 'in the party'; 'we met all kinds of people there whose names now have become shadows'; we used to distribute literature on street corners' 200 - 'people we knew were mostly writers ... Cambridge was a hot bed'; leading figures Kumaramangalam, and (? another name); still in touch with Victor Keirnan - married an Indian girl from IPTA in Bombay, but it didn't work out, now lives in Gallashiels 227 - at that time, went to Indian restaurants in London; knew Ralph Russell at that time 245 - come first to India to see sister, already married and in Amritsar; 'I came for a holiday really ... then I started teaching in an Indian school [in Amritsar] mostly Sikhs ...'; this after war had started; 'F and I knew each other then and the Dassiers [?] always used to go to Kashmir for their summer vacation, and that year F had made up his mind to go to Camb ...